The
Turks: Adam's Last Stand
Book Three
of Zombie Case
Chapter
One: Just Another Day
San
Antonio, Texas
River
Walk, out side of River Center Mall
Friday May
Eleventh, Two Thousand Eighteen
1:38 PM
EST
School
was still in and the River Walk was not as crowded as usual. But the mall was
even less and the girls had drug the men out to the stores to pick up some
stuff. Kerrie, Beth and Sandi were in the dress store and had the guys watch as
the tried on outfit after outfit.
"How's this look, honey," asked Sandi
looking at PJ. She smiled as he stared at the red low cut dress.
"It's fine. Really, isn't it time to
go?" Asked PJ looking back towards the exit.
Keen looked at him, "No silly, but
who likes this dress?" She asked holding up a long blue dress with no straps.
It sparkled.
Justin smiled, "You'd look beautiful
in that honey." He said.
"Thank you," answered Kerrie.
Beth came scrambling out, "I'm done,
this is all I see that I want."
John looked at all the girls, "Why'd
you girls wait until right before the dance to get these dresses?" Asked John.
"Because we wanted time to decide,
no pressure, right." Said Sandi.
"What ever," PJ stuttered.
Kerrie put her hand on Justin's
shoulder and rubbed his back. "Let's go guys, unless you'd like to stop somewhere
else."
Justin just looked up at her, and
then stood to his feet putting his arm around Kerrie, "I think that all the
guys are ready to go babe."
John jumped to his feet, grabbing
Beth's hands, "Hell yeah!" He said.
Sandi ran over to the Credit Card
machine, "Do you take Visa cards?" She asked.
"Yes ma'am." Said the clerk.
She slid the card through the
machine, "All three of those dresses," She said pointing back to her friends.
The clerk smiled and handed her the
receipt, "Thank you, and have a nice day." He said.
"Thank you," She said.
Sandi ran over to catch up with
them. PJ was lagging behind waiting for his wife. "I missed you," he said
kissing her.
"I missed you too." She said in
return.
They got out of the store, the men
carrying the bags now. Kerrie and Beth chattered away while Sandi browsed at
stuff on the sides of the walkway.
They got back to the front of the
store and could see the Suburban parked out front next to the BMW Z3
Convertible. They walked out to the cars and Kerrie and Justin got in the Z3,
Beth, John, Sandi and PJ got in the Suburban. Justin started his car, "Meet you
guys back at the hotel!" He hollered over the roar of the engine. Kerrie waved.
"Okay!" Shouted John over his car.
Justin was on the street corner so he just drove his car straight out into
traffic, he whipped around a brown minivan and out next to a Mustang. The roads
were pretty clear by now.
The Suburban came out a lot slower
because of the huge trucks slower take off. John took it around and looked down
at the gas gage, he hadn't filled it in three days. He Looked for a gas station
and then decide to report in to the other car. He picked up the radio.
"Justin man, I need some petrol, so
I'm gonna head out to the edge of town and get some gas, I'll be a little
later." He said.
Justin picked up his radio, "I copy
that, see ya there man." Justin said putting the radio down. He took a sharp
right and then looked over at Kerrie, her face was a little flushed and her
eyes looked like they were about to tear.
"What's wrong baby?" Asked Justin
pulling back the hair in front of Kerrie's shinning green eyes.
She turned towards him, and a tear
was coming down her cheek, he pulled the car over in a fifteen-minute parking
space. When he looked back at her there was that tear. He took his fingers and
slowly brushed it away. She took his hand in hers and put it against her mouth,
her lipstick coming off on it.
She lowered his hand back down, "I'm
still worried about Adam, he did just break out of prison, he'll be after us."
She said.
Justin took his hand and touched her
side lightly. "I know he will honey, and since we know that it will be a lot
easier for us to be ready for him." Justin said, he took the hand that was at her
side and tickled her. She screamed and jumped back against her door.
"Justin, that was uncalled for,
don't pinch me there!" She said, now a little happier. She started to unbuckle
her seat belt and then she slid across to his side of the car and sat down in
her lap, she pressed her lips to his and opened her mouth slowly, her eyes now
closed and her hand against his cheek.
Then from the side of the car came a
smart mouthing voice, "Don't you two ever figure out how to do that in
privacy!?" Came the voice.
Kerrie's eyes flew open and she put
her arm around Justin's back, she leaned over the edge and looked out over the
car door. "Kirby!" She screamed. The little pink puffball jumped over the side
of the door and into the car.
"What's up, babe." Said Kirby with a
smile. Justin looked at the little puff.
"You'd better get in the back
buddy," said Justin tossing him over the seat. Justin waited for a big truck to
go by and passed the time by adjusting his mirrors. He put his foot down
heavily on the gas and the car rocketed off like a greyhound at the starting
line.
Justin swerved in and out of
traffic, Kerrie grabbed onto his arm, "Please honey, don't drive so fast!" She
yelled.
Kirby leaned forward between the
seats, "Hit the rockets," he told Justin.
Justin opened a plastic case on top
of the stick shift. There was a red button underneath. He hit the red button
and the car lifted off the ground and into the air. Two rockets were fired
underneath the car.
The car go about fifty feet off the
ground and then landed in the parking lot of Resident's Inn. Kerrie crawled out
from under the seat and blew her hair out of her face, "Damn it Justin, Why'd
you do that?" She screamed at him angry.
He walked around the side of her car
and opened her door, "I'm sorry sweetheart, but look I got it in the space this
time." He said pointing to the lines. Kerrie stomped out of the car and walked
over to Justin, she slapped him as hard as she could and walked off into the
hotel.
Kirby
hopped out of the back seat and looked up at Justin, "You are one lucky man!"
Said Kirby.
Adam sat
in his room at the Wood field Suits loading his Magnum and filling clips for
his nine millimeter. He turned to pick up a clip off the bed behind him and saw
his red tipped boomerang. He hadn't used it since the last time he saw Kerrie
as a friend, since the wedding. That was the straw that broke the camels back
in his life.
Kerrie
being married to someone he hated, despised. He was going to get them all back
except the one he liked, the one girl there he liked Shannon.
Sarah
Charlotine's brown hair swished as she sat up in bed, she flicked the light on
and searched through the dimly lit room for her glasses. She then flipped her
hair back away from her eyes.
Her feet touched the cold tiled
floor of her room as she walked over to the door, and to think she had just
laid down to "rest" her eyes and that was two hours ago. She slipped on her
shoes that were next to the door. She was already fully dressed with her black
skirt, denim shirt and red tank top.
She stepped out into the much
brighter light of the hall. She squinted adjusting her glasses as she neared
the door to her office, the Turk office.
Sarah walked past pulling a folder
out of the box next to the doorway, she threw the folder on the desk of Wesley,
he and Brandon had been put on desk duty until they could show some
responsibility.
She looked at him, "I want these on
my desk by Sunday morning, Brandon." She ordered.
Sarah was the new Turk leader, she
had a whole new team made of Shin Ra soldiers. She was a beautiful and smart
person and now she was the leader of Turk team three. All of the sudden a tall
blond guy with light blue eyes ran up to her, "Sarah, we got this today from
some guy who says he's Adam." He handed her a letter.
"Thank You, Danny." She to the
letter and flipped it around so that it was facing the right way for her to
read. She looked down the page for the start of it.
I'm in the house where some of your friends stay and
I've brought with me some friends of my own. I have taken over the Avalanche
Complex with some of my guards. Come and stop me if you can, and bring that
cute little Shannon girl.
~Adam~
Sarah
threw the note on the desk, "That's from Adam alright, from what Kerrie told
me, when she comes in I'll tell her." She looked back at Danny, "Assemble the
rest of the team Danny." She said.
Sarah walked out into the hall and
back down past her room, she then saw Kerrie come stomping in, "I'm gonna kill
that Justin," she yelled.
Sarah stopped her, " What's wrong
Kerrie?" Asked Sarah.
"Nothing," said Kerrie.
"Oh," Sarah said, "well I guess I
should tell you that we got a letter from Adam today, he wants to fight us in
the Avalanche Complex up north of New York." Said Sarah.
"Well if it's a fight he wants, it's
a fight he'll get, I'll take the Highwind and two other Turk teams with me up
there, you wanna go?" Asked Kerrie.
"Sure," said Sarah. "I'd love to
help kick his ass."
"Cool," Kerrie said walking off to
her room.
Beth came into the hall, "Oh hi
Sarah!" She said. Coming around the corner.
"Hi Beth, I'm suppose to tell you
that we are going on a mission to get Adam, and you're suppose to get ready."
Beth smiled, "Gladly!"
Justin came running around the
corner, he looked to see where Kerrie was. Justin saw her standing there
talking to the other girls. He ran up behind her and put a hand on her
shoulder. She spun around and Beth and Sarah's conversation froze.
"Oh…you scared me," She said. Justin
slid his hand down the side of her arm and into her hand.
"Hey..." he started softly. "I'm
sorry about the car thing...I didn't mean to upset you." He said to her.
Her face softened, "It's okay..."
She said. "I shouldn't have yelled at you, it was uncalled for."
"No it wasn't, you were absolutely
right, sweetie." Justin said.
"We were both wrong...and it
was right for me to apologize too." Kerrie returned.
"Well then...I accept your apology."
Said Justin.
"I
accept yours." Kerrie said. They kissed and that was the end of it.
"The
Highwind is go for launch." Said Alice as she ran a scan of the engines one
last time. She had been the ship's computer since the beginning but she was now
in the Suburban and the BMW too. She could control all three at once and talk
to people in all of them at once.
"Good Alice," said Shannon, "Now
bring in the BMW and Suburban, park em' the lower deck, please."
"Yes ma'am." Said Alice.
The door to the Highwind swung open
and Sarah stepped in with Beth at her back, her black hair swished and wrapped
around to hit her in the face. She wore a great big smile.
"Well I guess we're about ready to
head out now, huh?" She said walking over to the control panel. "I mean when
the others get here and all."
Beth did not look up from her
systems checks, "Well some of them are on the deck, the rest are right out
side."
Just then Justin and Kerrie walked
in, "Well are we ready?" Asked Kerrie.
"Almost."
Replied Sarah.
His eyes,
like a snake's. A sharp black spot in the middle of a sea of yellow. A red area
surrounding the black, with spots of yellow in the murky redness. His spiked
blond hair did not move in the light winds blowing across him as he stood by
the fence to the Shin Ra Complex.
The expression on his face was of
nothing, an expression or no emotions. Something humans never felt. But he was
no human, he was Albert Wesker. And as he slipped his shades over his eyes he
kept a watchful eye on the fence. He
did not want his plan to be over before it got started.
Wesker left the cover of the small
trees behind and got a good running start. As he ran all that could be seen
were streaks of where he had been. He ran faster than any human could have, but
he was not human anymore. Just before reaching the fence he crouched without
fully stopping and then launched himself over the twelve foot tall fence and
landed in the grassy backgrounds of the complex.
He crossed the lawn of the complex
running at top speed, and he soon reached the parade grounds and he could see
it...The Highwind! He had to board it undetected, and that should be no
problem.
He ran up to the side, he only had a
few moments had to time it just right. The propellers spun and a loud whoosh
filled the air. He waited, just as the Highwind got into the air he jumped,
faster than he had ran, faster than ever. He caught a rail on the bottom of the
Airship, one arm at his side as he smiled wickedly, hanging off the bar.
He swung his body up and kicked out
a small metal panel, he went inside of the hole where the panel had been and
pushed the panel back into place. He now had room to stand up in the underbelly
of the Highwind. And then there was the fact that he could get up to the rest
of the ship from here.
Wesker pushed his hair back with his
hand as he removed his shades, "It's my turn to win this Turks!!" He said. He
replaced the shades. He reached down to his side and produced a Uzi. "And I
came equipped.."
The
Turks: Adam's Last Stand
Book Three
of Zombie Case
Chapter
Two: Allies
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Friday May
Eleventh, 2018
4:00 PM
EST
Amanda
Curran sat against the metal wall of the helicopter, she couldn't believe that
it was time to go already. She had spent all her free time gearing up for this
the thing that the people of Umbrella said could never happen twice.
Another catastrophic spill. The
T-Virus was what had been released. And in a few minutes the toxic steam of the
factory fire had been pushed through the streets of Albany. It seemed that a
renegade Umbrella worker had been the overlord of the entire thing. But that
was not her concern.
Her angle was to take in her team
the best T-Virus clean up specialist ever. But she had wondered for many long
nights why Umbrella kept testing this virus. Why the kept just waiting for the
time bomb to explode. And she wondered how long it would be before the blast
took them with it.
Her face sat between her hands as she shouldered the M16
with the muzzle aimed towards the sky. Her head drooped from lack of sleep over
the last few days.
Her glance turned over to Alaina,
who too was slumped against the wall, her long dark hair hanging down around
her neck and past her shoulders. Amanda was tired of the sound of the beating
blades. She looked to Alaina. "How's your boyfriend?" She asked.
Alaina looked up, "Fine…he got
promoted to manager of the factory." She said.
"Wow, here comes the big money!"
Said Amanda, switching the gun to her other hand.
Suddenly a loud burst of music filled
the air. Amanda looked the pilot's way, "Turn that down!" She shouted over the
hum of the blades, then she added, "Every Hunter on the ground will know our
position!"
Alaina shuddered. She hated the
Hunters. They would kill a human with one claw slash, and could come through a
barrage bullets like it was cold water. Even she, having been trained to kill
them was terrified by facing them.
Alaina shook it off and looked at
the pilot. Her eyes were stern as she said, "Turn that crap off Lauren!"
Lauren's head swiveled around to
meet, "If you want this chopper to stay in the air you better shut up and deal
with!" She said.
Alaina rolled her eyes. "BB-Mac is
an eighteen year old band. This is the twenty first century, and it's almost a
fifth of the way through!" She said.
Lauren turned back the helicopter's
controls, "Shove it!"
"I just thought about something…they
have them pointy little hats in like Japan, ya know."
Alaina turned back to her, "Yeah?"
"What are those for?" Amanda said.
She then corrected herself. "I know about the sun and all but I mean why not
flat like a cowboy hat?"
"Cause they are Japanese, if they
wore cowboy hats they would be…cowboys." Said Alaina. "I mean they eat with
sticks and shit."
"That's anther thing…why the sticks."
Said Amanda.
Lauren looked back. "Cause they want
to damn it!" She said.
"But they had math, science,
astronomy and people were digging clay all over the country with shovels. No
said, 'let's make a small shovel to get the damn food in my mouth!'" Amanda
added.
"They didn't say damn," said Lauren.
Alaina cut her off, "That's just
like the Egyptians."
"Huh!?" Amanda said with a puzzled
look.
"They built these big ass building
and had all this math and science but they could not figure out the wheel!?"
"That's brains for ya'," Lauren
joked.
Amanda cut her attention back to her
feet. "What do you think we're forgetting…I mean technology wise?" She asked.
"I don't know said Lauren but we'll
be on the ground in five…get ready." She said.
Amanda and Alaina jumped to their
feet and shouldered the M16s. Their packs were up high on their backs as they
prepared to land. They could see the whole city of Albany out the door and
hoped no baddies on the ground saw them as the chopper came down in to a trash
filled desolate street in front of the Airport.
They stepped out into the street
with their guns pointing in all directions. Alaina dropped her gun down to her
side after a few seconds. She looked to her teammates. "This blows!" She looked
around the empty street again. "There's no monsters here!" She said.
Amanda looked at her, "Well keep the
gun at ready." She said still watching the street. "Those Hunters blend into
their surroundings." She said.
Lauren let the gun down, and rolled
her eyes. "There's nothing here. The spill had no effect!"
Then from over in on the other side
of the street there was a loud and terrible moan. The M16s went for the
creature over in the shadows instantly, it lurked out. One of the many zombies
that had by now infested the city. A gunshot went off but it was a miss.
Then at the creatures back two more
figures appeared. The first creature was missing an arm, but besides that he
was a pretty normal zombie, almost completely intact. The other two had a kind
of hobble in their step and seemed a little slower.
Lauren fired the next shot taking a
chuck of the zombies head off, she then did the other two in with the same kind
of aim. Alaina seemed upset, "Don't hog em' all!"
Lauren looked at her, "Find your own
walking dead."
"Stay on task you two!!" Amanda
said. "We can't just fight over the rotting menaces."
They searched the dark corner for
any more of the creatures and could not find any. But from somewhere else not
too far off came the scream of someone being attacked by the zombies. Or by
something worst.
Alaina walked back over to the
chopper and picked up an arm full of grenades, and a few more clips for the
M16s. She smiled as she headed back to her teammates. She looked to the other
two, "Do you think we'll see any one we know from previous missions?" She
asked.
"Like Mr. X?" Said Lauren.
"I hated Mr. X." Amanda mumbled.
"Didn't we all…the damn thing
wouldn't die!" Alaina said. She looked around…"Shouldn't we get going? We've
got a lot to do."
"Let's
move." Said Lauren.
They walked a little further
through the city. Keeping their guns ready to fire just in case. They entered a
street going to the East. A parked car was rammed into a fire hydrant and a ten
foot tall fountain of water fanned out from the top of the nozzle.
Another car
was nearly intact but had a hole in it's window. The back door was missing.
Alaina walked over to the car as Amanda and Lauren stood back to watch what she
was doing. She made sure to avoid the water, when she reached the car her hand
went for the handle.
The door
suddenly burst open and a zombie charged out. She jumped back and screamed but
quickly swung the butt of the M16 rifle in the creatures head. His head snapped
with a horrendous crunch.
"You're
getting faster," said Amanda.
"Thank
you."
Then a loud
screech came from not to far off. Lauren spun around to search the shadows.
"Hunters." She uttered.
There
appeared to be nothing there but they knew better than to say the Hunter was
not there. Amanda stepped forward a little bit sprayed the dark area with
automatic gunfire. She stepped back, "There…I guess I got it." She said.
Suddenly
something moved but it seemed that the shadows moved. The Hunter charged out of
the darkness, it's claws were cocked back and ready. The Hunter had been in the
darkness blending in. It was now green and could be seen easily. He had the
body of a muscular human but with a reptile like head. The eyes were now red
and sharp claws dangled off each of it's fingers.
Kerrie
bought the Highwind down in a field East of town as Beth stood at her back
watching the controls and making note of how they preformed.
"They look fine to me, but just
incase let's just set her down in Albany, get out and send the ship over to the
Shin Ra Complex in Brooklyn." Said Beth.
Kerrie looked back, "Already ahead
of you Tiff." Kerrie replied. "But we should leave some people on the ship.
Just in case."
Justin and John walked in behind
them. "Wuz my peeps!" John shouted walking over to Beth and kissing her on the
neck.
Justin walked over and looked down
at the controls. "Damn, we're in Albany already!" He said.
Kerrie smiled, "We're nearly
landed."
The air around the Highwind blew
dust off the ground. The ship sat in the middle of the Airport Runway. Justin,
Beth, Kerrie, John and PJ stepped out onto the warm asphalt. Behind them came
Sandi, Shannon and Carlos.
Justin looked around, "Some
welcome!" Said Justin.
"The city seems to be deserted."
Said Shannon.
The Highwind lifted in to the air
and rocketed off. Kerrie looked to the airport terminal. "We should split up
and find out what happened." She paused. "Justin, John, Carlos, and PJ you guys
head out on the streets to the west."
"Okay, but be careful honey." Said
Justin.
"I will," said Kerrie.
"Shannon, Beth, Sandi and I will head North to the capital."
PJ looked at her, "We'll meet back
here in a few hour, we can keep in touch by cell phone."
"Okay…" said Beth. "See you then."
The girls departed and the boys headed over the top of a nearby barbwire fence
.
PJ went
over the top of the fence feet first and landed in the soft grass. It was then
he noticed that they had not seen a seen a single car since they had landed. He
waited as Justin and John dropped over. " There hasn't been a single car yet!"
PJ announced.
Suddenly the heard a horrendous screech. That was not
human. Justin pulled out his Beretta and began to run in the direction from
which the sound came. The other three did the same. John slapped a clip into
the gun.
The reached
a rather large black helicopter. Carlos stepped inside, "Damn man this shit's
loaded!" He screamed out. He tossed an M16 to each of his teammates. PJ,
Justin, and John loaded themselves down with the clips of the chopper.
The group
stepped out into the bright light. Just then they heard gunshots around the
corner. John lead the charge to see what it was.
Some kind
of large green thing was attacking three women. But the women had guns,
big guns, the same kind of M16s as the Turks. Carlos took careful aim at the
thing. He knew the girls and the monster did not see him. "That's a Hunter." He
said. The hunter sailed through the air towards the girls, ready to slice with
it's claws.
BAM! BAM!
BAM!
The M16s
rounds slammed into the back of the Hunter's large reptilian head. It continued
to fly towards them but fell just short of hitting them. The women stared in
disbelief as the thing that had seemed to want to kill them lay on the ground,
still breathing but the life slowly ebbed away in the form of thick red blood.
Justin and
PJ stepped forward holding the M16s towards the sky. PJ looked at them, "Didn't
we tell you three to stay out of the Shin Ra's way!" Said PJ.
Amanda
poked at the Hunter with her gun tip, "This is our last job for the
company…just let us finish!"
"What
ever." Said Justin. "I really don't care, but just try to stay out of trouble,
okay."
"We can
handle ourselves just fine!" Said Lauren. There was a loud bark and some
growling noises behind them all. About fifteen huge dogs charged out from
around the corner.
John and
Carlos emptied one clip on the dogs…only one fell. "Run!" shouted John.
"I might be able to hold them off." Everyone else ran and
after a few seconds of firing John and Carlos ran.
Alaina
looked back at the four guys, "Some shots you are."
Justin took
a backwards shot, "And you did better with the Hunters?"
Amanda saw
that the dogs were closing in, "We need to split up!" She said. "They can't
catch us all."
There was a
split in the road that they came upon. A small Honda sat on one corner. Justin,
PJ and Alaina ran to the left. John, Amanda, Lauren, and Carlos went to the right. Lauren spun around and
then she noticed that the dogs had not made it to the corner. She aimed the M16
at the car on the corner. She pushed a button and from the top of came a small
rocket. It flew off, then in the split second between it being fired and
hitting the car she noticed the gas
pipeline sign. The explosion of the car caused a big line of fire to shot down
the street. Even though it was broad daylight the sky lit up brighter than
before from the ball of fire.
Amanda
punched Lauren in the arm, "Good going, Lauren!" She said sarcastically.
"Yeah way
to paint the town red!" Said John.
From across
the fire came PJ's voice. "We might as well stay split. Let's look for
survivors!" He yelled.
Carlos
yelled back, "I guess I'm lucky we got more girls over here!" Said Carlos.
Alaina
yelled back. "We got more Ammo!" She said. Holding up the gun. She smiled and
let the gun drop back down.
Justin gave
the last shout from their side of the conflagration, "See ya' later."
"Bye," they
all yelled.
With that
the groups headed off into the normal, less heated light of day, fire blazing
hot a their backs and the cool spring breeze in front of them…
The Turks: Adam's Last Stand
Book 3 of
Zombie Case
Chapter 3:
Albany,
New York
Friday May
11th, 2018
4:26 PM
EST
Albert
Wesker had done good, his job was complete and he was content. But now that the
Highwind was gone he would have to break open some previously set traps right
in the path of his foes.
Wesker moved down the street and up
to the front of a bakery. Slowly he stepped over a dead body in the path and up
onto the curb. He peered at the tinted window. "Damn sunglasses." He muttered.
Wesker lowered them to reveal his
red snake like eyes. He went to put his face to the glass so that he could see
through the tint. Then from behind him came a cold moan. He looked back and
then down. The dry face of one of the zombies was next to his boot, pulling
itself closer to him with every second. It was the same body he had passed a
while back, that of a young woman.
He lifted his shoe and slammed it
down on the head of the decomposed lurid releasing a flood of dark thick
gelatinous blood. "Bitch ruined my boot." He alleged to himself.
Wesker put his face back to the
window, his eyes searching the room. The at the small round table next to the
corner he saw a man sitting with his back to the window, that's what he needed.
Albert's hand met the cold steel of
the door knob as he opened it, a bell rang confirming that the door had been
opened, Wesker shut it behind him. Before looking back the man at the table
said, "Hello Albert." In a cool voice.
Wesker looked around, his blond
spiked hair never responding to any environmental change. "This was a good place for a meeting, Adam."
He said. "Lotsa…pink."
"Yes," Adam said. "I just wanted to
tell you that I'll release our surprise while you go cause those girls
trouble." He said.
"I'm
gonin'!" Wesker shouted walking back out.
"I'm sorry
that those guys were so rude Lauren and Amanda." Said Carlos as they walked the
street slowly.
"It's fine," said Lauren.
"Really." Said Amanda.
Lauren looked around while pushing
the hair out of her eyes, the whole city had the smell of sun baked road kill,
but now it was stronger. "We should watch our step…I think we're getting close
to some of the zombies." She suggested.
John looked around, "I know why," he
said. John pointed her gun over to a river of murky goop running down the
sidewalk, the trail led back to a dead woman whose head looked freshly crushed.
"This was done with
in the last half hour," Lauren said.
Amanda looked up to the building
tops, "Yeah but by who?" She asked.
A sudden blow knocked her back to
the ground. She looked up to see Albert Wesker, her old boss standing over her,
a wide white teeth grin on his face. In a jolt he was gone, charging straight into
John and blowing her back into the same wall as Amanda. John screamed as he
hit.
"Who's next?" Said Wesker
decisively.
"Me!" Lauren shouted as she took aim
with the rocket on top of the M16. Albert stood as she aimed, but once the
projectile came loose he jumped straight into the air landing by Kerrie and
Amanda.
John looked up, "I thought you were
dead!" he said.
Wesker looked at her, slowly pulling
his shades down to reveal his red and yellow eyes, as he spoke a snake-like
tongue shot out of his mouth. "Who said I was alive!"
They
screamed and jumped back closing their eyes…when they looked up Wesker was
gone.
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Kerrie, Beth, Shannon and Sandi had not seen anything
out of the ordinary yet. The streets were just empty and without the noise that
they should normally hold. The people that they should normally hold.
Kerrie
looked back at her team, "I hope the boys are having better luck finding the
problem with the city."
As
Kerrie looked back at Beth her friend suddenly stiff up. She fell on the ground
face first with a tranquilizer dart in her back.
"Huh?"
Sandi just before she hit the ground.
Two
more shots found their marks on Kerrie and Shannon.
Adam
stood over them with a tranquilizer gun.
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Justin wanted to go down into the sewer and PJ had
nothing against it. But Alaina did not agree, "I am not going into the stinky
sewer!" She screamed waving her hands in the air frantically.
"Calm
down! Calm down!" Justin said shushing her. "Every bio-monster on the block
will here you.
PJ
walked over to the manhole cover, he used the M16 to lift it off. "Here we go."
He said.
"Not
me!" Yelled Alaina. Justin walked up behind her and pushed her into the hole,
She landed with a big splash. PJ and Justin snickered. Justin dropped in after
her soon after so did PJ.
Alaina
stood in the water dripping wet from the middle of her stomach down. She looked
down at the murky green water in disgust. The smell of sewage fresh in the air.
Unlike the boys she had gotten her hair wet.
Justin
laughed at her again but louder this time. "I think the "sewage water look" is
great on you, Alaina" Said Justin.
PJ
looked at her, "Someone had an accident!" He pointed at her.
Alaina's
eyes started to tear and she whined stomping off through the knee deep water.
They
walked after her and Justin said, "It's not a good idea to walk off in water you can't see to the bottom of…" Just
as he finished she froze and was pulled under the water with a circular wave of
water her head went under. "Ewww!"
Justin and PJ joked. They ran over to see where she had gone. There were
bubbles and she popped back up in a wave, she was covered in he brown water.
"Snake!"
Yelled Alaina in terror. "Sna—" she was cut off when pulled back in the water.
The
huge head of a snake shot forth from the water. It's green body glistening, all
and all it had to have two foot wide head. It had Alaina by the tail end of
itself. She was out of the water way out behind the head.
Justin
fired his gun missing as the snake dodged with lighting quick reflexes. PJ
fired too and he hit the part near where Alaina was. It uncoiled and let her
fall into the water.
The
two men continued to fire but the snake dodged. Justin gave up after five
shots, PJ after eleven. They realized they had limited ammo. Suddenly Aliana
popped out of the water with a grenade in her hand, she threw it and the snake
chomped down on it swallowing it whole.
Justin
and PJ both dove in pulling her down with them. The grenade exploded with a
rain of snake tissue and blood. Shrapnel ripped from the snake flesh and tore
through the water with some skin still attached. Reddish brown air bubbles
floated to the top of the murky water as Alaina, Justin, and PJ emerged at the
surface unharmed.
PJ
looked at her, "Surprised you can fight that well," said PJ. He and Justin
climbed up onto the dry side walk of the sewer and helped Alaina up. It was
then they noticed the fluorescent lights lining the underground labyrinth. Far
off down the dank halls screeching and barks could be heard, there was no
ladder out and they knew what was ahead. Lickers, Zombies and Hunters…
The
Turks: Adam's Last Stand
Book Three
of Zombie Case
Chapter
Two: Allies
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Friday May
Eleventh, 2018
4:00 PM
EST
Amanda
Curran sat against the metal wall of the helicopter, she couldn't believe that
it was time to go already. She had spent all her free time gearing up for this
the thing that the people of Umbrella said could never happen twice.
Another catastrophic spill. The
T-Virus was what had been released. And in a few minutes the toxic steam of the
factory fire had been pushed through the streets of Albany. It seemed that a
renegade Umbrella worker had been the overlord of the entire thing. But that
was not her concern.
Her angle was to take in her team
the best T-Virus clean up specialist ever. But she had wondered for many long
nights why Umbrella kept testing this virus. Why the kept just waiting for the
time bomb to explode. And she wondered how long it would be before the blast
took them with it.
Her face sat between her hands as she shouldered the M16
with the muzzle aimed towards the sky. Her head drooped from lack of sleep over
the last few days.
Her glance turned over to Alaina,
who too was slumped against the wall, her long dark hair hanging down around
her neck and past her shoulders. Amanda was tired of the sound of the beating
blades. She looked to Alaina. "How's your boyfriend?" She asked.
Alaina looked up, "Fine…he got
promoted to manager of the factory." She said.
"Wow, here comes the big money!"
Said Amanda, switching the gun to her other hand.
Suddenly a loud burst of music
filled the air. Amanda looked the pilot's way, "Turn that down!" She shouted
over the hum of the blades, then she added, "Every Hunter on the ground will
know our position!"
Alaina shuddered. She hated the
Hunters. They would kill a human with one claw slash, and could come through a
barrage bullets like it was cold water. Even she, having been trained to kill
them was terrified by facing them.
Alaina shook it off and looked at
the pilot. Her eyes were stern as she said, "Turn that crap off Lauren!"
Lauren's head swiveled around to
meet, "If you want this chopper to stay in the air you better shut up and deal
with!" She said.
Alaina rolled her eyes. "BB-Mac is
an eighteen year old band. This is the twenty first century, and it's almost a
fifth of the way through!" She said.
Lauren turned back the helicopter's
controls, "Shove it!"
"I just thought about something…they
have them pointy little hats in like Japan, ya know."
Alaina turned back to her, "Yeah?"
"What are those for?" Amanda said.
She then corrected herself. "I know about the sun and all but I mean why not
flat like a cowboy hat?"
"Cause they are Japanese, if they
wore cowboy hats they would be…cowboys." Said Alaina. "I mean they eat with
sticks and shit."
"That's anther thing…why the
sticks." Said Amanda.
Lauren looked back. "Cause they want
to damn it!" She said.
"But they had math, science,
astronomy and people were digging clay all over the country with shovels. No
said, 'let's make a small shovel to get the damn food in my mouth!'" Amanda
added.
"They didn't say damn," said Lauren.
Alaina cut her off, "That's just
like the Egyptians."
"Huh!?" Amanda said with a puzzled
look.
"They built these big ass building
and had all this math and science but they could not figure out the wheel!?"
"That's brains for ya'," Lauren
joked.
Amanda cut her attention back to her
feet. "What do you think we're forgetting…I mean technology wise?" She asked.
"I don't know said Lauren but we'll
be on the ground in five…get ready." She said.
Amanda and Alaina jumped to their
feet and shouldered the M16s. Their packs were up high on their backs as they
prepared to land. They could see the whole city of Albany out the door and
hoped no baddies on the ground saw them as the chopper came down in to a trash
filled desolate street in front of the Airport.
They stepped out into the street
with their guns pointing in all directions. Alaina dropped her gun down to her
side after a few seconds. She looked to her teammates. "This blows!" She looked
around the empty street again. "There's no monsters here!" She said.
Amanda looked at her, "Well keep the
gun at ready." She said still watching the street. "Those Hunters blend into
their surroundings." She said.
Lauren let the gun down, and rolled
her eyes. "There's nothing here. The spill had no effect!"
Then from over in on the other side
of the street there was a loud and terrible moan. The M16s went for the creature
over in the shadows instantly, it lurked out. One of the many zombies that had
by now infested the city. A gunshot went off but it was a miss.
Then at the creatures back two more
figures appeared. The first creature was missing an arm, but besides that he
was a pretty normal zombie, almost completely intact. The other two had a kind
of hobble in their step and seemed a little slower.
Lauren fired the next shot taking a
chuck of the zombies head off, she then did the other two in with the same kind
of aim. Alaina seemed upset, "Don't hog em' all!"
Lauren looked at her, "Find your own
walking dead."
"Stay on task you two!!" Amanda
said. "We can't just fight over the rotting menaces."
They searched the dark corner for
any more of the creatures and could not find any. But from somewhere else not
too far off came the scream of someone being attacked by the zombies. Or by
something worst.
Alaina walked back over to the
chopper and picked up an arm full of grenades, and a few more clips for the
M16s. She smiled as she headed back to her teammates. She looked to the other
two, "Do you think we'll see any one we know from previous missions?" She
asked.
"Like the Bandit Snatchers?" Said
Lauren.
"I hated the Bandit Snachers."
Amanda mumbled.
"Didn't we all…the damn thing
wouldn't die!" Alaina said. She looked around…"Shouldn't we get going? We've
got a lot to do."
"Let's
move." Said Lauren.
They walked a little further
through the city. Keeping their guns ready to fire just in case. They entered a
street going to the East. A parked car was rammed into a fire hydrant and a ten
foot tall fountain of water fanned out from the top of the nozzle.
Another car
was nearly intact but had a hole in it's window. The back door was missing.
Alaina walked over to the car as Amanda and Lauren stood back to watch what she
was doing. She made sure to avoid the water, when she reached the car her hand
went for the handle.
The door
suddenly burst open and a zombie charged out. She jumped back and screamed but
quickly swung the butt of the M16 rifle in the creatures head. His head snapped
with a horrendous crunch.
"You're
getting faster," said Amanda.
"Thank
you."
Then a loud
screech came from not to far off. Lauren spun around to search the shadows.
"Hunters." She uttered.
There
appeared to be nothing there but they knew better than to say the Hunter was
not there. Amanda stepped forward a little bit sprayed the dark area with
automatic gunfire. She stepped back, "There…I guess I got it." She said.
Suddenly
something moved but it seemed that the shadows moved. The Hunter charged out of
the darkness, it's claws were cocked back and ready. The Hunter had been in the
darkness blending in. It was now green and could be seen easily. He had the
body of a muscular human but with a reptile like head. The eyes were now red
and sharp claws dangled off each of it's fingers.
Kerrie
bought the Highwind down in a field East of town as Beth stood at her back
watching the controls and making note of how they preformed.
"They look fine to me, but just
incase let's just set her down in Albany, get out and send the ship over to the
Shin Ra Complex in Brooklyn." Said Beth.
Kerrie looked back, "Already ahead
of you Tiff." Kerrie replied. "But we should leave some people on the ship. Just
in case."
Justin and John walked in behind
them. "Wuz my peeps!" John shouted walking over to Beth and kissing her on the
neck.
Justin walked over and looked down
at the controls. "Damn, we're in Albany already!" He said.
Kerrie smiled, "We're nearly landed."
The air around the Highwind blew
dust off the ground. The ship sat in the middle of the Airport Runway. Justin,
Beth, Kerrie, John and PJ stepped out onto the warm asphalt. Behind them came
Sandi, Shannon and Carlos.
Justin looked around, "Some welcome!"
Said Justin.
"The city seems to be deserted."
Said Shannon.
The Highwind lifted in to the air
and rocketed off. Kerrie looked to the airport terminal. "We should split up
and find out what happened." She paused. "Justin, John, Carlos, and PJ you guys
head out on the streets to the west."
"Okay, but be careful honey." Said
Justin.
"I will," said Kerrie.
"Shannon, Beth, Sandi and I will head North to the capital."
PJ looked at her, "We'll meet back
here in a few hour, we can keep in touch by cell phone."
"Okay…" said Beth. "See you then."
The girls departed and the boys headed over the top of a nearby barbwire fence
.
PJ went
over the top of the fence feet first and landed in the soft grass. It was then
he noticed that they had not seen a seen a single car since they had landed. He
waited as Justin and John dropped over. " There hasn't been a single car yet!"
PJ announced.
Suddenly the heard a horrendous screech. That was not
human. Justin pulled out his Beretta and began to run in the direction from
which the sound came. The other three did the same. John slapped a clip into
the gun.
The reached
a rather large black helicopter. Carlos stepped inside, "Damn man this shit's
loaded!" He screamed out. He tossed an M16 to each of his teammates. PJ,
Justin, and John loaded themselves down with the clips of the chopper.
The group
stepped out into the bright light. Just then they heard gunshots around the
corner. John lead the charge to see what it was.
Some kind
of large green thing was attacking three women. But the women had guns,
big guns, the same kind of M16s as the Turks. Carlos took careful aim at the
thing. He knew the girls and the monster did not see him. "That's a Hunter." He
said. The hunter sailed through the air towards the girls, ready to slice with
it's claws.
BAM! BAM!
BAM!
The M16s
rounds slammed into the back of the Hunter's large reptilian head. It continued
to fly towards them but fell just short of hitting them. The women stared in
disbelief as the thing that had seemed to want to kill them lay on the ground,
still breathing but the life slowly ebbed away in the form of thick red blood.
Justin and
PJ stepped forward holding the M16s towards the sky. PJ looked at them, "Didn't
we tell you three to stay out of the Shin Ra's way!" Said PJ.
Amanda
poked at the Hunter with her gun tip, "This is our last job for the
company…just let us finish!"
"What
ever." Said Justin. "I really don't care, but just try to stay out of trouble,
okay."
"We can
handle ourselves just fine!" Said Lauren. There was a loud bark and some
growling noises behind them all. About fifteen huge dogs charged out from
around the corner.
John and
Carlos emptied one clip on the dogs…only one fell. "Run!" shouted John.
"I might be able to hold them off." Everyone else ran and
after a few seconds of firing John and Carlos ran.
Alaina
looked back at the four guys, "Some shots you are."
Justin took
a backwards shot, "And you did better with the Hunters?"
Amanda saw
that the dogs were closing in, "We need to split up!" She said. "They can't
catch us all."
There was a
split in the road that they came upon. A small Honda sat on one corner. Justin,
PJ and Alaina ran to the left. John, Amanda, Lauren, and Carlos went to the right. Lauren spun around and
then she noticed that the dogs had not made it to the corner. She aimed the M16
at the car on the corner. She pushed a button and from the top of came a small
rocket. It flew off, then in the split second between it being fired and
hitting the car she noticed the gas pipeline
sign. The explosion of the car caused a big line of fire to shot down the
street. Even though it was broad daylight the sky lit up brighter than before
from the ball of fire.
Amanda
punched Lauren in the arm, "Good going, Lauren!" She said sarcastically.
"Yeah way
to paint the town red!" Said John.
From across
the fire came PJ's voice. "We might as well stay split. Let's look for
survivors!" He yelled.
Carlos
yelled back, "I guess I'm lucky we got more girls over here!" Said Carlos.
Alaina
yelled back. "We got more Ammo!" She said. Holding up the gun. She smiled and
let the gun drop back down.
Justin gave
the last shout from their side of the conflagration, "See ya' later."
"Bye," they
all yelled.
With that
the groups headed off into the normal, less heated light of day, fire blazing
hot a their backs and the cool spring breeze in front of them…
The Turks:
Adam's Last Stand
Book 3 of
Zombie Case
Chapter 3:
Albany,
New York
Friday May
11th, 2018
4:26 PM
EST
Albert
Wesker had done good, his job was complete and he was content. But now that the
Highwind was gone he would have to break open some previously set traps right
in the path of his foes.
Wesker moved down the street and up
to the front of a bakery. Slowly he stepped over a dead body in the path and up
onto the curb. He peered at the tinted window. "Damn sunglasses." He muttered.
Wesker lowered them to reveal his
red snake like eyes. He went to put his face to the glass so that he could see
through the tint. Then from behind him came a cold moan. He looked back and
then down. The dry face of one of the zombies was next to his boot, pulling
itself closer to him with every second. It was the same body he had passed a
while back, that of a young woman.
He lifted his shoe and slammed it
down on the head of the decomposed lurid releasing a flood of dark thick
gelatinous blood. "Bitch ruined my boot." He alleged to himself.
Wesker put his face back to the
window, his eyes searching the room. The at the small round table next to the
corner he saw a man sitting with his back to the window, that's what he needed.
Albert's hand met the cold steel of
the door knob as he opened it, a bell rang confirming that the door had been
opened, Wesker shut it behind him. Before looking back the man at the table
said, "Hello Albert." In a cool voice.
Wesker looked around, his blond
spiked hair never responding to any environmental change. "This was a good place for a meeting, Adam."
He said. "Lotsa…pink."
"Yes," Adam said. "I just wanted to
tell you that I'll release our surprise while you go cause those girls
trouble." He said.
"I'm
gonin'!" Wesker shouted walking back out.
"I'm sorry
that those guys were so rude Lauren and Amanda." Said Carlos as they walked the
street slowly.
"It's fine," said Lauren.
"Really." Said Amanda.
Lauren looked around while pushing
the hair out of her eyes, the whole city had the smell of sun baked road kill, but
now it was stronger. "We should watch our step…I think we're getting close to
some of the zombies." She suggested.
John looked around, "I know why," he
said. John pointed her gun over to a river of murky goop running down the
sidewalk, the trail led back to a dead woman whose head looked freshly crushed.
"This was done with
in the last half hour," Lauren said.
Amanda looked up to the building
tops, "Yeah but by who?" She asked.
A sudden blow knocked her back to
the ground. She looked up to see Albert Wesker, her old boss standing over her,
a wide white teeth grin on his face. In a jolt he was gone, charging straight
into John and blowing her back into the same wall as Amanda. John screamed as
he hit.
"Who's next?" Said Wesker
decisively.
"Me!" Lauren shouted as she took aim
with the rocket on top of the M16. Albert stood as she aimed, but once the
projectile came loose he jumped straight into the air landing by Kerrie and
Amanda.
John looked up, "I thought you were
dead!" he said.
Wesker looked at her, slowly pulling
his shades down to reveal his red and yellow eyes, as he spoke a snake-like
tongue shot out of his mouth. "Who said I was alive!"
They
screamed and jumped back closing their eyes…when they looked up Wesker was
gone.
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Kerrie, Beth, Shannon and Sandi had not seen anything
out of the ordinary yet. The streets were just empty and without the noise that
they should normally hold. The people that they should normally hold.
Kerrie
looked back at her team, "I hope the boys are having better luck finding the
problem with the city."
As
Kerrie looked back at Beth her friend suddenly stiff up. She fell on the ground
face first with a tranquilizer dart in her back.
"Huh?"
Sandi just before she hit the ground.
Two
more shots found their marks on Kerrie and Shannon.
Adam
stood over them with a tranquilizer gun.
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Justin wanted to go down into the sewer and PJ had
nothing against it. But Alaina did not agree, "I am not going into the stinky
sewer!" She screamed waving her hands in the air frantically.
"Calm
down! Calm down!" Justin said shushing her. "Every bio-monster on the block
will here you.
PJ
walked over to the manhole cover, he used the M16 to lift it off. "Here we go."
He said.
"Not
me!" Yelled Alaina. Justin walked up behind her and pushed her into the hole,
She landed with a big splash. PJ and Justin snickered. Justin dropped in after
her soon after so did PJ.
Alaina
stood in the water dripping wet from the middle of her stomach down. She looked
down at the murky green water in disgust. The smell of sewage fresh in the air.
Unlike the boys she had gotten her hair wet.
Justin
laughed at her again but louder this time. "I think the "sewage water look" is
great on you, Alaina" Said Justin.
PJ
looked at her, "Someone had an accident!" He pointed at her.
Alaina's
eyes started to tear and she whined stomping off through the knee deep water.
They
walked after her and Justin said, "It's not a good idea to walk off in water you can't see to the bottom of…" Just
as he finished she froze and was pulled under the water with a circular wave of
water her head went under. "Ewww!"
Justin and PJ joked. They ran over to see where she had gone. There were
bubbles and she popped back up in a wave, she was covered in he brown water.
"Snake!"
Yelled Alaina in terror. "Sna—" she was cut off when pulled back in the water.
The
huge head of a snake shot forth from the water. It's green body glistening, all
and all it had to have two foot wide head. It had Alaina by the tail end of
itself. She was out of the water way out behind the head.
Justin
fired his gun missing as the snake dodged with lighting quick reflexes. PJ
fired too and he hit the part near where Alaina was. It uncoiled and let her
fall into the water.
The
two men continued to fire but the snake dodged. Justin gave up after five
shots, PJ after eleven. They realized they had limited ammo. Suddenly Aliana
popped out of the water with a grenade in her hand, she threw it and the snake
chomped down on it swallowing it whole.
Justin
and PJ both dove in pulling her down with them. The grenade exploded with a
rain of snake tissue and blood. Shrapnel ripped from the snake flesh and tore
through the water with some skin still attached. Reddish brown air bubbles
floated to the top of the murky water as Alaina, Justin, and PJ emerged at the
surface unharmed.
PJ
looked at her, "Surprised you can fight that well," said PJ. He and Justin
climbed up onto the dry side walk of the sewer and helped Alaina up. It was
then they noticed the fluorescent lights lining the underground labyrinth. Far
off down the dank halls screeching and barks could be heard, there was no
ladder out and they knew what was ahead. Lickers, Zombies and Hunters…
The Turks:
Adam's Last Stand
Book 2 of
the Zombie Case
Chapter 4:
Albany,
New York
Friday May
11th, 2018
4:43 PM
EST
Jay Martin
could hear them outside, the screams, the moans. He could hear the moving
creatures that padded their way down the New York state streets. He had not
heard a voice that was not in agony in hours.
Then a voice of a girl screamed. She
had to be right against the wall, he felt the scream. Then after a few second
he heard her talking. In a hurry Jay was on his feet, running to the bolted
door.
They had come! The ones who would
save the city…probably by the thousands. The Army, Navy and Marines. They would
carry him out in a tank or jet. Jay stepped into the front hall and exited
through a door to the street.
He looked to the wall where he had
perceived the sound and he saw a girl laying against the wall. She was
sweating, her hair was plastered to her face and she had a gun.
Jay stepped out into view, "Hello."
He said in his annoying country accent.
The girl on the ground spun with a
small Beretta in her hand. The gun barrel pointed at him, she had one eye
closed. "Who are you?" She asked.
Jay stood there staring at her. Some
people stepped out from somewhere around the corner, two guys and one more
girl. The first woman spoke again, "Who are you?" She demanded.
He stuttered the answer out in his
thick country accent, "J-J-Jay M-M-Martin." He said.
The second girl stepped forward
pushing the first girls gun down slowly. "He's harmless…" She said. She looked
up at Jay, "My name's Lauren, this is Amanda, John and…what's your name again?"
She said.
"Carlos."
"That's right." She said.
Amanda walked over closer to him,
"I'm sorry…I'm just a little jumpy." She said.
"It's fine," He said. "I've been
jumpy since these here zombies infected the city." He slipped his hand down
into his pocket and looked back behind him.
Amanda smiled. Then John stepped
forward. "How long have you been here?" John asked.
"Since this whole thing started,
about six hours ago." He said.
"Well you can come with us Homeboy…"
Said Carlos.
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PJ was
weary of the smell after being in the sewer for only a short time. The winding
tunnels filled coldly with the smell of death. Alaina's head darted from side
to side as she looked for any dangers in the path ahead.
Justin seemed completely content
with the walk, until the sound of
thunder filled the air. But Justin and PJ knew all to well what it was. Justin
mumbled out the terrible words, "Mr. X." He said.
The stomping turned to shaking,
ripples formed in the water and small particles of dust shook lose from the
cracks between the bricks. "It's him," said PJ.
Alaina had only heard talk of him,
she knew that James Xavier had created him. But all the talk she had heard had
been small comments passed between scientist as she passed through the labs on
her way to briefing rooms. It was never information on how to destroy it that
she picked up.
Justin raised his weapon and pushed
the small weapon on the bottom and a rocket rose out of the top. PJ did the
same. Alaina looked at Justin. "What does he look like?"
"You'll notice him." He said. After
the words left his mouth a large pale white fist burst through the wall. Chunks
of brick and wire flew through and into the water. Justin and PJ raised the
weapons but Alaina stepped back and tripped.
She grabbed onto one of the grenades
she had not used. Her thumb flicked the grenade pin out onto the floor. She
cocked her arm back and threw the grenade. Mr. X's large pale hands caught it
and the explosion could be heard not seen. He swung his arm back and threw the
Shrapnel at them.
Justin and PJ opened fire. The first
few bullets pounded into him. He began to bleed thick black blood, his hand
grabbed the spot. After seconds he fell off balance and then down to one knee.
Justin and PJ urged Alaina to run
ahead as the backed up firing. She got around the corner and into a giant
valve. She yelled to them, "Hurry, we can close him off." Justin and PJ ran
faster just as they entered, the giant valve closed. Alaina went to lean
against the door. Then next to here head a giant section of metal bulged out.
"We
can't stop here." Said PJ. "He'll come through that in seconds." He pulled her
off her feet and they all charged off down the corridor together.
****
Shannon in
an odd room, hands and feet chained together. Her head was immensely sore and
back hurt. She opened her eyes in the blinding light of this room. The first
thing she noticed is that she was not alone, Keena and Tiffane were there with
her.
Then she noticed that the weight of
her Beretta was gone. She searched the room, Sandi was no where to found. It was then that Shannon noticed a figure
across the room. One she knew real well. "Adam!" She growled . "You did this."
He turned around, "Oh, you're
awake." He said. "I was wondering how long it would take."
"Where's Sandi?" She looked around,
"Where am I?" She asked finally.
"Deep below the surface of the city,
and you are about to witness history." He said. Adam walked over to Keena. He
bent over and tapped her face softly. "Keena!" He said in a singsong voice.
"Wake up, Tiffane." He added with the voice.
The two girls shot awake. Keena
looked around. "Adam?" She said.
"You bastard!" Yelled out Tiffane.
"Where's Sandi?"
"Dead!" said Adam "Quiet and watch."
Adam walked over to a wall full of seventeen inch computer screens. He hit one
key on the lower panel and with a short tone a cylinder section of the wall
opened to reveal a creature with a human body shape. But that was the only
thing human. The thing had to be at least eight feet tall. It had a bald head
and although it was surrounded by a
brownish red liquid the thing could be identified as a light gray color. The
eyes were black, but since they looked like a kind of liquid they probably see
real well. The things left arm was about a whole foot longer than the right.,
long bony claws extended from the left hand. The right seemed normally
proportioned to the body. In place of the heart was a large throbbing tumor,
and from the throbbing the girls could guess it was the heart! The
monster wore a metal kind of legless shorts. They were black in color and were
most likely bullet proof.
Adam waved his hand towards the
thing as if he was presenting it, "Introducing Tyrant…the most efficient
Umbrella killing machine, stolen by…ME!" Adam snickered.
Shannon rattled the chains, "You
freak!"
Adam looked at her with a sly smile,
"Flattery won't save you my dear."
Tiffane yelled at him, "So you took
all the people out of the city!"
Adam looked at her, "No I killed
them." He looked to the monstrosity that was Tyrant. "And I will release the
plague of Tyrant upon your friends." Adam pressed a button and the beast came
alive.
****
Alaina was
tired, her eyelids dropping and her hair was still wet from her "fall" into the
sewer. She held her M16 towards the ground and stepped down the damp slopping
hallway. She looked back at Justin and PJ. "What are you two doing?"
"The same damn thing we were
doing the last time you asked." Said PJ. "This is the third time in this five
minute period."
"Sorry!" Said Alaina rudely. She
looked around, "So do you think we'll see anymore big enemies down here."
Sudden a dog flew out from around a corner hitting Alaina and knocking her to
the ground. She screamed out.
The zombie dog had no skin so she
could not touch it, her M16 had flown loose out of her hand and onto the side of
the walkway out of her reach. She went to move for the Beretta at her side, but
the dog snarled. Justin went aim but he couldn't get a clear shot.
From out of the same corner came a
flash of blurred color. The streaky thing moved towards Alaina and the dog
kicking he dog under the ribs and sending it flying. The thing stopped.
It was a man, he had brown hair
parted down the middle with two blonde bangs. He had gray eyes. He wore a brown
vest with many pockets lining the front and an orange Korn shirt underneath. He
had brown cargo pants on and combat boots. His face was young and he had in his
hands two golden Lugars.
He grabbed Alaina's hand and hoisted
her up, "You have to be more careful around here." He said in a kind voice.
"Okay," Alaina said blushing.
The dog jumped up and charged at
him, the man ran and jumped against the wall as the dog chased behind him. He
did a wall jump, kicking off the wall and going the opposite he had just run.
He did a spinning kick into the dogs head knocking the evil animal flat.
"Nice ass," added Alaina as she
watched him fly through the air.
In mid air the man seemed to slow down as he took aim with
the guns. He fired and the golden Lugars reciprocated back and forth as the small rounds pounded into the dog's torso.
The man landed on the ground sliding
through the brown pungent water, his boots put ripples in the water and causing
some splash up. He looked around holding the two guns.
"Who are you man." Said Justin.
"My name is Steve Burnside." He
said. "I came here to put a stop to this evil.
"I'm Alaina," she said smiling and looking him over. He
shook her hand.
"This is PJ and I'm Justin, we came
here for the same reason."
PJ looked at Steve in disbelief,
"How did you do…that?!" He asked.
"I just…do it." He said.
Alaina giggled and just stared at
him, "Thank you for saving me." She said her face still red.
He looked at her with a slight
smile, "My pleasure." He said.
Justin looked at him for a second,
"How did you get into the city, and can we get out that way?" He asked.
Steve shook his head doubtfully. "I
was here on vacation, I was really visiting my family in New York and all of
this started. I came here today to see the sights but I found this place
infested with zombies."
"There must not be many survivors at
all." PJ announced.
Alaina was still red, smiling and
starring a Steve. She started to speak, "Why don't you come with us, Steve?"
She asked.
"I will then, I need all the help I
can get." Alaina suddenly wanted to curse at Justin for pushing her in the
sewer and making her smell so bad.
****
The black
Turk helicopter was huge, a type of police copter that was rarely used. It had
two blades and had to be over one hundred feet long, but the aircraft was not
very good with gas mileage.
Chris Redfield had flown the thing
in from New York as soon as he heard about the whole Umbrella spill in Albany.
What made him even more mad was the fact that Claire refused to stay at home
and wanted to come with him.
But she would most likely be okay,
she was a two time survivor of the Umbrella madness. And besides there was
still Jill Valentine, Rebecca Chambers, David Trapp, Jon Andrews and Leon
Kennedy to help him out.
The entire ride there was cool, it
was a day that had stayed at a current temperature of about sixty and a breeze
blew down from Canada. Of course they had landed already and were just
preparing to go in.
Leon stood at the door looking at
the falling sun, the hazy horizon growing steadily closer to the orange ball of
gas and fire. He looked back at Claire as she pulled her boots on. It was odd
to see that even though she knew what was going to happen she wore the same
type of clothes.
Her hair was up in a pony tail. Her
gray eyes concentrating on her laces. She had on a pair of tight shorts and a
pink T-Shirt reading "Princess." When
she finished with the shoe she reached across the metal floor of the ship and
took hold of an Uzi. She looked back at Leon, he laughed, "What's so funny?"
She asked.
"Nothing!" He said still giggling.
Chris walked to the back and as he
passed by he shook Jill awake. "Jill it's time," He said. She came awake and
looked around, a chilly breeze was in the whole cabin.
"You scared me to death Chris!" She
said sweeping her bangs out of her face.
"Sorry," he said.
Jon Andrews stood up, his huge
tanned muscular form in the doorway, "It's hard to believe that anyone would go
up against theses things by choice." He said. "But I'm such a dumb-ass I do
it." He said.
Rebecca stepped into the door beside
him, she rubbed her hand down the side of his back. "So I must be a dumb-ass
too." She said jokingly.
He smiled, "No you're not!" He said.
Then from the back came a thick
British accent, a man with dusty blonde hair stepped out, "Come on let's suit
up and get out of here, we need to find the problem…on the double now!" He was
commanding and had a cool demeanor about him. It was David.
Everyone jumped to their feet and
was at the door in seconds. David walked over to the door, now we break up into
two teams. Rebecca, Jon and myself on one and Chris, Jill and Claire on the
other." He slipped on a pair of shades. "We separate out from the chopper and
look for any clues to where the spill is coming from." He started to walk off,
but then added. "If you find the lab don't touch anything. Got it?" They all
nodded. "Good, move out."
****
Jay was
adjusting to his newfound friends quickly and to the groups amazement his
handling of Amanda's Mac10 was terrific. He stepped off around the corner of a
building and put a hand of caution out, all of the others stopped in their
tracks, guns at ready.
"Another Zombie," he said.
A loud wailing moan came around the
corner along with the smell of week old
road kill. BAM! BAM! The two bullets pounded into the chest of the creature, it
fell to the ground with a spreading puddle of red liquid leaving its
decomposing body. Jay lowered the gun.
"That was a great shot," Said
Amanda.
Jay walked passed the dead thing on
the ground. Carlos and Amanda passed it next. "Thanks," he said. There was a
startled scream as the creature grabbed onto Lauren's leg.
BAM! The thing fell dead.
Lauren looked up at Jay. "Next time
shoot the head." She said. Then shaking her foot gently she shook loose the
clammy hand of the automaton off her leg.
"Sorry." Said Jay.
Amanda stopped in the middle of the
road to check the clip in her gun. She slapped it back into place. "There isn't
a thing in the city worst than that horrible smell!" She exclaimed.
Unexpectedly a large hand burst
forth from the ground, long claws extended off each finger for at least a foot.
The arm behind it was gray. Instinct kicked in and Carlos fired into the hand.
But the thing kept coming, the hand bent and whatever it was began to pull
itself up into plain view.
The concrete tore and ripped like
water as the thing tried to get a grip on the sidewalk. The long horrible
screech rose up from the hole. Suddenly the other arm burst forth. The ground
between the two arms gave way to reveal a gray head. The eye's were liquidly
black. There was a large throbbing tumor in place of the heart, blood vessels
could be seen running around the edges of the tumor.
Jay aimed the gun for the tumor. Two
holes with the red splatter marks around it appeared where the bullets entered
the tumor. The thing went into a sudden charge, it ran full force at Jay. Jay
dove away in just a nick of time. After realizing Jay was gone the thing dug
it's claws into the ground to stop.
The pavement parted like waves of
water and the monster did a spin to redirect it's attack. He ran towards
Lauren, as she began to open fire the M16 she held jammed. "Oh shit it's
jammed." She said.
In a flash Carlos, Amanda and John
were in front of her firing the guns and the muzzle flash lit up the nighttime
sky. But the thing kept coming. He clothes lined John and Carlos and bought his
shoulder down to hit Amanda. When she hit the ground he stopped because he had
Carlos by the neck.
The creature then flung him against
a mailbox on the side of the road. "Damn," exclaimed John. "This guys a
hyperactive Mr. X!" He said.
Amanda rolled over to grab her gun,
"This must be Tyrant!"
The Tyrant continued to head for
Lauren she hadn't really realized him because she thought for sure that they
could block him and shoot him down. She looked up to see the creature was
almost upon her. She slid down to duck as the claws slammed into the wall
behind her.
She had just barely been missed, but
then she looked down to see the bottom part of her hair. "That fucker sliced
off my hair." She went for her Desert Eagle, but saw it was behind the monster.
In a flash she dove between the
Tyrants legs and rolled picking up the gun as she went. The creature gurgled
out some words, "Blood!" it managed.
"I'll show you blood!" She fired
into the creatures head four times and the blood spread from the open wounds.
In seconds the thing fell to the ground with a loud WHAM!
Lauren turned and walked back to the
others helping them up. They all walked off silently down the street and around
the corner. Not one of them looked back at the creature, but when they had left
it was not over.
The things hand flicked to life and
the Tyrant pushed it self to its feet. There was no limp in its step, in the
time it lay on the ground it had fully healed. The monster ran headlong at the
side of a building and jumped landing on the four story high roof in a single
bound. It looked down on the heads of its attackers, watching…waiting.
The Turks:
Adam's Last Stand
Book 3 of
Zombie Case
Chapter 5:
The Kids Aren't Alright
The Shin
Ra Complex
Friday May
11th, 2018
5:00 PM
EST
Kate
looked at the TV screen in disbelief, she could not believe this was happening
as the TOP STORY banner ran across the bottom of the screen. The news woman
stared down at the computer screen in front of her, as she read the brand new
story that had just come in over the web.
"An Umbrella spill on the northeast
side of town…" was all Kate needed to hear. That's near here were her first
thoughts. Then she realized that the spill would spread all over the city, and
then the worst realization came when she knew it already had.
All of the people in the Shin Ra
Complex had been lucky, they had moved to a special containment area built for
this type of thing, but the spill had worn off an hour ago, and who ever was
effected had been by now.
Michael held Kate tight as the next
words left the newscasters mouth. "All residents who are not infected need to
stay calm and try to escape to the outside of the city." The caster made herself
very clear and then paused. "The death toll could be in the millions." She said
finally.
Prentiss cut the TV off, "Okay," he
started. "We need to get out of this Hell Hole." He said. "Rufus, Scarlett
Reeve and the rest of the board are not here, neither are the Shin Ra special
agents. That's leaves the soldiers."
Debra held on tightly to Magnum, it
was like a comfort item in this time of crisis. She looked at her peers, "We
already went to the armory, I say we head out on foot."
Kate looked around, "We've got five
grenades a piece," she paused, hoping she did not sound bossy. "One compact
grenade launcher, two pistols, ten clips, a shotgun and a shit load of shells."
"I can work with that." Said
Michael.
"You and me both brother!" Prentiss
said.
"We need to stick to the main roads,
there's a bus station twenty miles from here we could head there or steal a car
and drive out of town…Kate you have an Uncle in the Spring Cypress area?" Said
Debra.
"Yes…Uncle Jeff, my Dad's brother."
"Let's head there!" Said Prentiss.
"Now all we have to do is steal a
car…"
****
Rickey
slapped a clip into the gun and looked around. The normal stuff his team did
still seemed to function as they were just entering a city full of zombies. He
looked to Lea who just seemed so timid in the oddly setting sun. He saw that
her gun's safety was still on.
"How do you plan to shoot like
that?" He asked.
"Like what?" She answered
incredulously.
Scott Davis, another teammate
answered her question. "The safety's still on." He said.
"We're the FBI for crying out
loud…you act like you've never used a gun!" Said Rickey.
"Sorry." She said.
Mitchell looked around, "No baddies
yet." He said. "Maybe they went up in this hotel." He said pointing to the
Marriot they stood next to.
Tonya the final Team member hit the
handicapped button alongside the door and it slid open slowly, as if the drama
of the situation was connected to time itself. Her blond hair caught the light
as she entered underneath the huge crystal chandelier. She looked up with the
gun still in her hands.
"The whole city f Houston must be
deserted." She said.
Then there was the sudden ding of
the elevator and the gold doors on the ornate structure opened to reveal a
smell like sun baked road kill.
"Shit!" shouted Scott.
"Smells just about that way, don't
it?" Lea said sarcastically her eyes rolling as she did. A flood of moaning
came out to meet them. A zombie bell hop and his passengers came charging out
into the red carpeted hall. Scott, Rickey, and Mitchell mowed down the first
group. The final few were picked off by Lea and Tonya in seconds.
The groups continued to walk,
stepping carefully over the bodies of the creatures. One of the one's shot by
the boys latched on to Tonya's ankle, and inched it's way closer to her, it's
clammy hand against her skin. She jumped off the floor and did a spinning kick
sending the head flying. "Next time hit the heads guys." She said calmly.
"You could have shot first ya'
know?" Scott said smartly.
Mitchell reloaded the KF7 with a
full Banana Clip. He then checked the sights. The group moved into the elevator
slowly. Rickey turned to the rows of buttons that lined the inside of the lift.
"Which floor do we take and look for Survivors?" He asked.
Lea looked, "How 'bout that good old
thirteen?" She said.
"Thirteen it is!" Rickey said
hitting the button. The doors closed and the elevator moved up.
Albany,
New York
Friday May
11th, 2018
5:03 PM
EST
Chris,
Claire, and Jill searched with the quickly setting sun at their backs. A slow
moan came from behind them, and Claire spun first to see the creature hobbling
out from around the corner. She M80 machine gun into the things head knocking
it down.
She twirled the small weapon. "Take
that!"
Chris looked back at his sister,
"Don't let your head get too big!" He said.
Jill just smiled, she knew he was
always taking the best care of his younger sister. Jill looked down at the
information that she had on the Umbrella activity they had stolen over the
years. "The lab is located in the sewer…so…" She paused looking at a manhole
cover up ahead.
"Not again!" Whined Claire,
remembering her trek through the muddy waters long ago. Suddenly a long screech
came from somewhere near by, Chris and Jill looked around to find it's origin.
Then suddenly it found them.
A large Licker dove out from the
corner of a shadowy ally. It landed next to a dumpster just on the edge of the
lighted street. Chris aimed the twelve gauge Remington
Shotgun
towards the Licker. BAM CH COCK!
He missed the Licker had jumped and
rolled. Jill ran to the side and dove into a roll she fired at the head with
her Beretta. She missed the first to shots. The tongue of the monster lashed
out and soupy saliva ran of the tip of the tongue. Claire fired at the ting but
missed narrowly as the monster rolled back. But when it landed Jill had the gun
against the thing's exposed brain. BAM! She fired and the thing fell dead on
its side.
Jill stood to her feet and slung the
slime off the end of her gun. "Why can't we fight a clean monster?" She asked.
Chris looked down at the manhole,
"Looks like the sewer is the way to go." He said. Chris lifted the lid of the
cover, it could be told that the cover was heavy. He let it go with a resulting
loud metallic clang.
Chris lifted the Shotgun back onto
his back and looked into the hole, there were some lights down there already.
He began to climb down, followed by Claire and then Jill.
The sewers smelt horrible, but they
could not expect more than this. At least there was a promise of less zombies
down here. Chris looked at the green water, "Let's try to stay out of the
water." He suggested.
Claire smiled, "Can do!" She said.
Right
after Claire yelled this there was a sound of loud footsteps, in a flash all of
the weapons were in the hands of the team. A huge trench coat wearing creature
stepped out from around the corner up ahead.
"Mr. X!" exclaimed Claire. She
opened fire as did her two companions. The spray of bullets pounded into the
things chest with great speed. He didn't even get the chance to charge, he just
collapsed onto one hand and leaned with a terrible injury growing from his
chest.
Jill looked at him as he tried just
to keep from flopping into the crap infested waters. She ran as quickly as she
could and made it past the foe, Claire came next and then Chris came by it
passing a few bullets into the thing's arm.
The three passed into another
section of the sewer, and walked several feet before anything of interest came
about.
Then they reached The Falls. A huge
drop off that had to be all of three hundred feet. To the left the drop off
just stopped, but to the right was a pipe that a full grown person could easily
walk through, it was reddish brown with rust coating everywhere water did not
run on a normal basis. Water poured from the pipe down into the three hundred
foot drop off, thousands of gallons in minutes!
But they could easily cross the drop
off although it was fifty feet wide. There was a cement bridge that seemed as
if it was rooted in the manmade lagoon below The Falls. The bridge was moist
but besides that totally safe. It was complete, had rails and toward the middle
was some sort of rubber slip reducer.
Jill stepped out onto the overpass.
Claire starred down into the waters in amazement. "How can something so
beautiful appear in such a…" she looked around. "A place so unclean?" She said.
She looked back at Chris and he
urged her on. Her first few steps were shaky, but she soon got the hang of it
and looked back to see Chris behind her. She looked ahead to see Jill on the
final steps of the bridge. Soon Jill reached the end. Mist moved up from far
below and hit against Claire's legs. She felt a cool breeze from somewhere
below. Chris looked back to make sure that Mr. X had not regained his stature
and come after them. Claire then reached the other side and Chris did soon
there after.
****
David, Jon
and Rebecca stood at the entrance to the Airport. The setting sun was bringing
temperatures down into the upper sixties and it was promising already to get
much colder.
Rebecca
looked to David, "We may have to go rob a coat store soon!" She said.
David answered back in his lush
English accent, "Perhaps…"
Jon pulled one of his hands into his
shirtsleeve but still held his gun, "where's the action, I did not come out
here to freeze my nuts off!" The man's large muscular figure shivered in the
cold.
David looked up the ramp, well we
better head inside the Airport see what we can find, there's a Lift over there
it looks to be." He said.
Jon and Rebecca looked over to where
he had pointed. There were many muffled moans of the dead in that corner of the
garage. Rebecca looked at the Veteran of the Special Tactics And Rescue Squad
and made a suggestion. "Why don't we try the attack patter Delta again?" She
asked.
"You mean charge out there and fire
at what ever pops up in the way?" Jon asked.
David smiled remembering a joke that
was not funny when it had been made.
He thought about the time that he,
Claire, Rebecca, Jon and Leon had been pinned down in that factory, he had
yelled out attack plan Delta. Claire asked what was that and he said run and
shot the first fucking thing that bloody moved. "We'll go with your plan,
Rebecca just as soon as Leon gets back.
The young would-be cop came charging
over from a nearby Port-o-Potty. "Sorry I took so long." He said in a soft
voice. "I still can't believe you let me fall asleep and forgot about me!"
Jon looked back, "Learn to snore!"
He said.
Rebecca looked back at Jon, "You
won't do that when we get married will you?"
David ignored the conversation, but
Leon thought about Ada every time someone mentioned Love. The woman he had met
back in Raccoon over ten years ago. She was the one for…
"Let's move out, attack plan Delta!"
David's commanding voice said. All of the group charged across the garage and
the moans got closer. Louder. One creature lunged out in front of Jon, he drew
his foot back and kicked the head of the thing as it lay on the ground. The
head flew spraying a trail of blood in its wake.
A group of about twenty people stood
next to a car, Leon drew a grenade from his vest and slung it at the car. Since
he was last in line and the car was on the other side of a large wall everyone
was clear of the blast...except the zombies.
One of the things was in David's
path, he took aim with his Colt 45, the loud ring of automatic gunfire preceded
the bullet finding its place in the zombies head. The thing flopped over dead,
or just a little bit deader.
From behind another wall a Mad Dog
jumped in front of Rebecca, she released a rain of bullets on the creature and
killed it instantly. The dog's skinless body sliding across the floor and
coming to a stop against the wall. She was the first on to reach the elevator,
the rest made it only seconds after, all of them breathing heavily from the
hundred meter adrenaline rush.
"Shit!" exclaimed Jon. "What a fun
run." His voice was sarcastic at the last part. He pushed the call button and
waited with the rest.
****
Alaina,
PJ, Justin and Steve could hear the sound of running water up ahead. Alaina was
tired of the dingy sewers. The group of four passed a turnoff and kept going
until they saw it, a huge water fall in the middle of the sewer.
Justin swept the moist spray off his
face. "Sweet."
Alaina ran past him and PJ and
looked at the large falls, "It's so romantic!" She shouted. She looked at
Steve, "Isn't it Steve?"
Steve shrugged, "I guess…" He said.
Then from behind them came a soft
feminine voice, "Steve?" It said. Justin and PJ recognized it at once. Claire
Redfield.
Steve spun, "Claire!" He shouted.
"Is it really you?" He asked. She ran from the shadowy corner where she stood
barely visible with Chris and Jill at her side. After her short run she landed
in Steve's arms. He held her close, she pulled herself back and they kissed.
"I never thought I'd see you again!"
She said to him.
"I hoped I would see you after what
happened." He said.
Alaina looked down in disbelief, I
lost this guy… she thought.
After I died Alexia passed by me on
her way somewhere, she must have injected the T-Veronica Virus in me for some
reason. When I woke up the place was collapsing and I escaped…barely.
"Thank God!" She said.
PJ looked over at Alaina, she seemed
sad. Justin looked too, "Are you sorry you lost him?!" He asked sarcastically.
She looked down her face turning red
from embarrassment, "We should head for that turnoff back this way…" She said
still looking down.
Chris looked at her, "The lab's that
way." He said.
Jill smiled "That's where we were
headed."
PJ leaned over and spoke into
Justin's ear, "Could you not make fun of Alaina?" He said as they all walked.
"I was just playin', she knows we're
friends." Justin said.
PJ looked kind of nervous as he said
the next part, "I know but I just don't like to see her sad." He said.
"Man…what's up with you, you're paid
to kill zombies!" Justin whispered.
PJ got jittery as they reached the
turn. "I think…he paused…I think I love her." He said. A gun went off as Justin
caught the full extent of the words. A one armed zombie crumpled over on the
floor, his other arm was nearby against the wall.
Justin looked back at him, "Dude,
you're married." Said Justin.
Steve looked at the knob of the
door, " We'd need some kind of acid to get through this. Alaina handed him a
White Phosphorous grenade. He set it against the wall and set it. In seconds it
ate through the knob with the strong acid. Justin looked at PJ nefariously and
kicked the door through.
Inside the hallway was covered in
white tile and scrubbed as clean as a Hospital. The walls were a light gray
color and the ceiling was white tiles like the floor. Bright white florescent
lights gleamed overhead. The smell of crap was gone…this place smelled of
Lysol. Not too far down the hall was a clean shining trash can that had the
shape of a hot dog cut in half. It had a top labeled "HAZORIDOUS WAIST" and the
Bio-Hazard symbol was below it.
This is the lab.
There was a turn off hall with two
big double doors standing sentinel of the way. Justin walked over to them and
peeked down the hall, two Bandit Snatchers stood at the far end, and he wasn't
sure how long their arms could reach.
Justin looked back at Steve and
Claire. "Ready to show em' what yer' made of Steve?" He asked.
"Yeah." Said Steve.
Justin and Steve charged into the
doors beginning the fierce melee.
Alaina stood all by herself next to
the trash can as the rest of the group had gathered by the door. PJ walked over
to her, "You okay…Alaina?" He asked.
"No…It's just…never mind." She
paused. "Why do you ask?"
"Justin didn't mean it." He said.
"He was joking, but I didn't find it funny."
"Yeah…" she said looking nervously
at the ground.
PJ patted her back, she turned to
him smiling. "I told him to stop…and Alaina…"
BAM! There was a gunshot in the next
room.
****
Justin and
Steve stepped into an identical hallway with guns drawn. The two creatures
looked at them. Each only had one arm since all Bandit Snatchers are made that
way. One of them slung an arm out. It stretched to reach them. Steve jumped up
and kicked off the wall Justin rolled to the side sending a bullet through the
creature's hand. He had blown one of the three fingers off.
Steve flipped back onto the floor.
The second creature sent its hand for him, Steve jumped back and stuck out his
arm, the thing grabbed his arm. Steve yanked his arm down and flung the monster
against the door. When it hit Justin gave it four bullets in the head.
Steve pulled out a Taser and the
first one threw it's hand out, Steve caught it off guard shocking it to death.
The Bandit Snatcher rolled over onto the floor letting out a terrible screech.
Steve put the Taser away.
Justin reached over and opened the
door up, he dropped the M16 in his hand it clattered on the tile floor. Chris,
Jill, and Claire had been watching the whole thing. But Justin was interested
in what they could not see behind them. Alaina and PJ were kissing. Then Chris
yelled out, "Look!" A pack of five Hunters stood at the end of the hallway.
Their eyes gleamed, they had more problems than PJ's marriage.
The Turks:
Adam's Last Stand
Book 3 of
Zombie Case
Chapter 6:
Out of the Sewer…into the Fire
Albany,
New York
Friday May
11th, 2018
5:20 PM
EST
John moved
out front of the girls and fired at the creature barring the path. The bullet
pounded into the thing's lower fore head killing it. John looked back gleaming
with pride. Lauren just passed him by with her gun still out ahead of her.
John looked at Carlos, "Tough to
make these chicks laugh, eh?"
Carlos laughed, "You said it man."
Carlos looked over at Jay who was reloading the gun with a fresh clip from
Amanda. She let the clip drop from her M16 and checked the bullets, she was
doing pretty good without wasting ammo.
Jay smiled, "Thank you." He said.
A voice up ahead made them all
freeze, "I'm sure you are very welcome." It said.
John looked up, "Adam?!" He said.
The blond man with hair draping down
both sides of his head stood in their path. His eyes purple and green mixed
around the cornea, they reflected the dim streetlights. "Yes…it's me and I have
a few new features since you last saw me…" In a flash he was gone and appeared
right next to Carlos. "You see I made a deal with someone…" He paused and was
gone again reappearing next to Amanda. This guy moves that fast! He
tripped her, "My friend, let's just call him the Devil…he was more than happy
to have my help." He punched Jay and sent him flying.
John charged but before he reached
Adam the demonic man was behind him knocking him sprawling. Lauren and Carlos
fired but Adam took off running, slow enough for them to see him but still to
fast to shoot. He ran up the wall of a building and jumped off it to land next
to a large blue Ford Excursion.
Adam put one hand under the truck
and lifted it, he then slid his hand to the middle and pulled it all the way
off the ground. He got it up higher and higher until all of the heroes watched
him hold the two thousand pound truck over his head in one hand.
He threw it at them and they all
scattered. The truck landed against the wall on the other side of the street,
it exploded into a flaming wreck after hitting the ground. Adam was not
sweating yet. He stood where the truck had. His foes regrouped between him and
the fire, but facing him.
He walked slowly towards them,
without saying a word. Suddenly his head burst into flames, but is head did not
burn, it just flamed. The flames slowly spread down, burning all of his clothes
off. Red streamers shot around from the sides of his body to cover certain
parts of him.
He cooled down and the red streamers
turned green to end up looking just like vines. Adam's body had turned into a
light gray color and his hair was green, like the vines. He held his hand out
like a crossing guard telling the cars to stop. All of the group opened fire,
the bullets that hit his body just flamed off. One from Lauren hit his hand. He
looked at the blood running down his gray palm. He brought his hand to his
mouth and sucked the blood out of the wound.
Adam swung his hand back as the team
watched. He leaned in and spit, but blood did not come out, leaping red flames
burn towards the zombie clean up team. All of them dove to the side landing in
a roll. Carlos looked back at Adam, "Sweet Jesus!"
"Bad word choice!" Said Lauren.
Amanda decided to take command of
the situation, "The Airport is a mile up the road," She looked back, "He's
slower in this form, we can run for it."
The rest nodded and they took off,
with flames leaping from the burning truck behind them.
****
Keena came
to in a pile of debris from the escape. Tiffane was leaning against the wall on
the opposite side of the room next to Shannon. There were piles of rock and
machinery all over, it appeared that Adam's plan to control the huge Tyrant had
not been so successful.
The thing escaped and had destroyed
half the room they had been in, but at least it had caused them to be able to
escape too. Adam was gone now, he had just walked out. But Keena was sure she
had heard gunshots not too far off. She looked over to her two companions, "Did
you hear the gun shots."
Shannon swept her hair out of her
eyes as she searched the piles of rocks for their weapons. "Yes, M16s from the
sound of it." She said. Shannon suddenly pulled a large box from the rubble.
"Here they are!" She said.
Tiffane rushed over to get her
weapon. "You think John, Justin, PJ and Carlos are down here?" She asked.
"Poor PJ, he's lost his wife…I hope
he does not find out too early." Said Keena.
Shannon was still digging, "Here's a
radio." She said. "We can listen and find out if anyone was sent in to help
us." She turned it on, it was already on FM and on a News Station.
"…in other news Albany seems to be
one of two cities experiencing problems with an Umbrella spill. Houston Texas…"
"Oh no." Shannon dropped her clip
right out her hand as she was startled.
"The kids!" Keena said.
The radio continued, "The
inhabitants of the Shin Ra Complex were mostly out of town, but the ones still
there sought out refuge inside the bio containment center of the base. The
death toll appears to be in the millions, with people in the complex and
northwest side of the city faring the best with chances of not being affect."
The female announcer paused. "No matter what the trouble we ask tonight that
everyone pray for the poor unfortunate T-Virus Victims of Houston, Texas."
Shannon cut the radio off and handed it to Keena.
"Do you want to keep this for later
check ups on the city." Asked Shannon with sympathy, she really had no friends
in Houston outside the Shin Ra. He family was father up north. Keena took the
radio and threw it against the wall. It busted onto the floor below.
She stood up, "Let's go." As they
walked for the door there were no words passed between them. Tiffane opened the
door and they rushed out into the hall. A zombie faced the wall at the end of
the hall. One Automatic shot rang out and the creature slumped over dead.
Then far off the M16 could be heard
once more.
****
Kate's tan skin was all that could be seen in
the street light. The sun had set not too long ago and she had no idea how they
would survive in the dark while fighting zombies. Prentiss looked down the street,
some of the lights were out others blinked faintly. He straightened his glasses
and kept a look.
Debra put her hand on his shoulder,
"What's in your head?" She asked. She leaned over and looked at her head.
"I'm just worried about Mom and
Dad." He said. "I just have this feeling." He said sadly.
Kate kept a straight face as she
spotted some movement in the alleyway farther down the street. She raised her
gun, the blue Beretta that her father had given her mother. She locked onto the
movement and yelled out in a confidant voice, "Identify yourself!" She yelled
She waited, then Michael yelled,
"Can't you hear?!"
More of the shapes moved out of the
shadows, five or six of them moved around now. The shapes seemed to be
completely mobile, not like something infected with the T-Virus.
"FBI!" Came a voice loud and clear,
it was one of the figures.
Prentiss yelled back, "Shin Ra!"
The FBI agents came running forward.
"I'm Rickey and this is my team, Lea, Scott, Mitchell and Tonya." He pointed to
them in turn.
Kate looked at Tonya in disbelief,
"Hey we know you, you're the same Tonya that helped us in Europe a few weeks
ago." She said.
"Yes, I am." She said. "And you're
Kate, that Kick Ass little girl." Said Tonya.
Scott pulled out a cigarette and
stuck it in his mouth. He pulled out a Zippo lighter with a Korn written on it.
He lowered the lighter putting it in his vest pocket, the on that read Davis,
probably his last name. He took a drag on the cigarette and pulled it out to
talk. "So how come you're still part of the world of the living?" Scott asked
calmly the smoking tabbacco in his hand.
Debra looked them, "We lived because
we hide out in a bunker the second Umbrella made the threat against Houston."
She said.
Rickey looked at her, "How well are
you all armed?" He asked.
Michael threw an M16 off his back
and caught it with his other hand. "Well enough."
Lea stepped forward with a large box
she dropped it and it popped open, a Rocket Launcher rolled out of the case,
the large shiny object was loaded. Kate stared down at it, she had never
actually fired one, but she had always wanted to try. Lea smiled, "Meet Bertha,
one of our…friends."
Prentiss looked at the huge gun as Lea scooped it back up into the
case. She lifted the case slowly. "So what's that for?" He asked. "There's only
zombies here."
"Not true," said Tonya. "There's the
Tyrant." She said.
"What's the Tyrant?" asked
Kate.
Tonya pulled out a picture of
something. She held it under the light of the street lamp. A woman was in the
picture, she was pale gray and not dressed, she had long green hair and one of
her hands was a long claw like thing, all over her body green vines started and
ended. Kate stared in fear, the thing looked powerful.
Mitchell spoke up, "The first Tyrant
was a giant male, but this female is just as strong, and twice as fast and
cunning."
"And you need a rocket to finish
her?" Asked Debra.
****
Alaina and
PJ hopped back off of each other, their guns came out, but Alaina stumbled
backward, her eyes wide in fear as she saw the Hunters leaping down the
hallway. In a single bound one of them leapt twenty feet landing thirty feet
off of Justin and Steve.
The mussel flash rapidly kicked off
the gun as bullets flew. The Hunters ran through the bullets like a Sea Doo
through water. It reached Justin but was covered in blood. It backhanded him,
quickly and jumped at Steve with ease. Steve dove and rolled under the creature
coming up on the other end of it.
Alaina was getting nervous as she
watched the creature battle Steve. PJ had his gun aimed out as he looked to the
side, "Are you okay? You look pale." He said. She just stuttered.
Justin climbed back to his feet and
went to help Steve. Now two more of the Hunter came into the fight. Jill and
Chris rushed in and fired. A third ran up and jumped over the group inside the
hall, He landed ten feet from Alaina. PJ stepped in front of her to protect
her. "Back off!" He yelled.
The Hunter threw him, and Alaina
screamed, she had always been afraid of the Hunters. Every since she had first
battled on, it had killed on of her teammates, cut his stomach open with the
claws.
Alaina watched as the Hunter raised
its claws over her head, and she knew they were razor sharp and they could cut
her to stripes. Just then Claire slid between the legs of the Hunter. She stood
up and aimed the M80 at the monster, and fired into its face. The back of the
Hunter's head blew out and a huge bloody fissure was in the middle of the face.
Alaina ran to PJ, "Are you okay?"
She asked shaking him. Alaina turned to thank Claire, but she had run off to
help Steve.
Jill jumped to the side letting
Claire run to help Steve. Steve rolled back and jumped onto the Hunter's back,
he aimed his Luger into the thing's right eye firing five times. The brains
squirted out of the exit wound, he quickly jumped off the thing's back before
the Hunter toppled over with blood leaking out all over the ground forming a
red pool on the floor.
PJ got to his feet pulling a Magnum
out of his pocket. He aimed it at the head of a hunter way down the hall, he
fired and the Hunter dropped red liquid spilling everywhere.
Alaina tried to regain her control
of the situation, "Hold on guys…" She hit the button underneath the gun's
barrel and a loud automatic click sounded. A hole in the top of the gun opened
up and a small rocket rose out of the M16. Alaina watched as the last two
Hunter's came down the hallway slowly. She aimed the rocket. "Fire in the
Hole!"
The rocket streamed out and exploded
on the last two foes. Fiery debris rained down in the hall, what was left of
the main part of the Hunters' body lay flaming in the hallway. Jill smiled,
"Good shot Alaina!" She said contently.
Chris went to speak and then he
looked over at his sister and Steve, kissing, making out in the middle of the
hall. Chris turned around slapping a fresh clip into his gun, he glanced back
at his sibling for a split second and then turned away.
Justin reloaded his gun, "We'd
better get a move on," He said. "It's dark out by now and we have to take the
streets to escape.
****
Leon and
David stood at the door of the elevator, their guns drawn. Rebecca and Jon were
back against the wall as the door slid open and a soft "ding" sounded. The
group stepped out into the midway of the parking garage.
There was a small
stretch between them and the airport building itself. Jon looked out into the
damp and dank garage. There was a puddle of water in the middle of the
corridor, but there seemed to be nothing that was dangerous. No moans of
zombies, no scuffling of paws.
They lowered the weapons and looked
around. "Where's the welcome wagon?" Asked Jon sarcastically.
Rebecca walked forward and looked to
the lights inside of the empty terminal, she turned back to the group. "We
should head in there and try to secure an escape route."
David smiled, "Rebecca's right, if
the Turks are somewhere around here and if we can contact them this will be the
only way for them to get out."
Leon looked ahead, "Let's do it!" He
said. Then the sound of breaking glass shattered their conversation. A long
pink arm knocked Leon backwards, some king of gurgling noise came from the
doors. A huge creature jumped through the glass. "A Bandit Snatcher!"
Rebecca ran to the side of the
parking garage with her gun out and she aimed her gun at the thing. Her gun
jumped in her hands six times and suddenly it clicked once. She expelled the
clip onto the garage floor.
Leon got back to his feet and ran
over next to David, the two began to fire rapidly. The creature continued its
approach to them. Jon got to the wall opposite Rebecca, the creatures arm shot
out tripping him. Jon rolled and got back to his feet quickly as he could. He
glanced back at the elevator.
Leon and David ran to Rebecca's
side, she was just slapping a clip into her Beretta. Jon was over in the middle
of the open elevator door. The creature slung its arm out at him and he dove
out of the way. The things arm landed in the middle of the lift. The door began
to slid back and the Bandit Snatcher screeched loudly in pain. The door was
closing on its hand, Jon slid back into the open and began to fire hitting the
stunned and immobile because of the arms.
After six more bullets the thing
fell dead on the ground. Jon looked back at the rest, then at the floor where
the blood ran from the grinned arm. He smiled slightly, "What a mess!"
****
The
Airport may have been a mile, but it was a long mile. Amanda took this
time to eject a clip onto the street. She looked back at Lauren, "Is this the
kind of exercise you wanted?!" Asked Amanda.
John who was behind them kept a
steady pace. "You two stay in front of me," he said. "I can cover you better
from the back."
Carlos looked back,
a stream of fire zoomed in between them all. "Damn!" He shouted. He shot a few
quick rounds back at Adam.
Up ahead they could see the Airport
not to far off, the shifting moonlight hit the parking garage of the building.
It was downhill now, about fifty more meters of open running, after that they could
move into the Terminal and find a way to escape. But it would take sometime,
and they would have to ditch Adam.
****
Keena and
Shannon had found it, just to the side of the lab they had been in. The newest
railway in the United States ran from New York to Texas, and in between it
turned off to head for California and Washington State.
They could take it and get back to
the Airport to find the rest of the team, Tiffane made a suggestion, "We should
head up to the Airport but maybe we'd better go check out that gunfire from
earlier."
Then there came a voice, "Keena!"
came a voice. She spun around.
"Justin," she smiled running over to him. "I can't believe it."
Thy kissed in the middle of the room. She held his hands and stepped back, "We
found an escape route in the next room, a bullet train!" Keena said excitedly.
Tiffane looked back, "But we'll need
someone to drive it." She said.
Just then the others that had been
with Justin came running in. Seeing PJ Keena, Shannon and Tiffane looked down
in disgrace.
PJ being next to Alaina was the
first thing Shannon noticed and then she looked at him, her eyes showing
extreme sorrow. "PJ." She said.
PJ was smiling not knowing what he
had coming to him. "Hey, I just noticed that Sandi's gone, where'd she get off
to?" He asked.
All of the girls looked as if they
were thinking of a good lie they could make up to fulfill his questions.
Tiffane spoke, "PJ…Adam sort of…" she paused. "Adam killed Sandi we're sorry!"
She shouted out, her voice shifty but fast as she dropped the words out.
Alaina put her arm around PJ, "I'm
sorry to hear that." She said. She rubbed his back.
Justin seemed more worried about
escaping, "Who here can drive a train?" He asked.
Alaina turned back, "Wait for Lauren,
she can drive anything," Said Alaina. "They would know to go to the airport
too. That's just the way she thinks."
Keena broke in, "There's more
trouble, Alaina, your friends will have to hurry, we have to get back to
Houston!" Keena said.
"Why?" Asked Jill.
Shannon answered, "Because the city
there had an Umbrella spill too, and the kids are trying to escape on their
own! " Exclaimed Shannon.
Steve ran to the door, he looked
into the next room where the train was. "We'd better get on that train and get
to the Airport."
Claire walked over to the door
behind him and they all went to the train. Justin was the last one onto the
train, Keena stopped after getting through the door. "What's wrong?" She asked.
"I'm worried about Kate." He said.
"Me too."
****
Steve
Alaina and Claire stood in the train operating center. The key was there and it
was the first thing Steve turned. Alaina walked up to the panel, there were two
levers, they each went two ways, one labeled fast and slow, the other back and
forward. It was the steering. Alaina grabbed the lever labeled back and
forward. She pushed it to forward and then pushed the other to middle speed.
The train began to move slowly at
first and then picking up speed as it went. "It's working," Alaina shouted
excitedly, then she glanced over at her two companions, kissing and not paying
her any attention. They didn't seem to know they were moving at all. Alaina
looked back to the controls. "Okay." She said sarcastically.
The train sped into the port and out
the side windows the empty airport terminal could be seen looking back at them.
Alaina bought the lever back to stop and the train slowly rolled into the dock.
The lights inside flickered slightly, and a loud screech came from under the
tires.
The train jolted back and towards
the back the door could be heard sliding open. The rubber padding bought the
door to a soft and comforting stop. The door to the terminal was wide open and
the train was right against it. PJ stepped out of the train door and into the cool
air of the terminal. He seemed to be upset with good reason.
PJ held his gun out to his side, the
small Beretta now instead of the M16, he had that one his back. His clothes
were set from the trek through the sewer, and he seriously hoped there was no
more sewer travel.
Keena and Claire out of the train
next, followed Justin and Steve, they padded along the airport paths until they
reached a poster. It was shaking with little force and then from inside came a
dry moan.
The rest of them ran out to join the
group. The moans continued, then a young woman charged out of the bushes, purse
in hand, she didn't seem to notice the people watching her.
She screamed in fright and ran for
the wall, Justin raised his gun and fired. The zombie behind the poster moved
for second more and then stopped. The woman stood against the wall taking in
air in large quantities. She looked real young, blond hair green eyes and about
five six.
Her attention shifted to the people
who had saved her, "Thank you." She said standing back up to dust her body off.
She was still startled and out of breath. "What was that thing?" She asked
trying not to look at the bloody mess Justin had caused.
"Zombie," Said Shannon softly.
Keena looked at her, "Why are you
all alone in the airport, what are you like sixteen?"
"Thirty." Answered the woman.
Everyone looked at her with untrusting faces. To break the little confrontation
down Tiffane began to introduce people.
After the introduction the girl came
back, "My name's Carly," she smiled slightly. There was a mumble of 'Nice ta
meet ya's' down in the group and then they all looked back to the bus.
There was a shout behind them and
they turned to see a group of people running straight at them. Some of them had
guns in plain sight others had them set into their back straps. There was a
yell. "Alaina!!"
Thoughts flashed through her head. Amanda,
Lauren, am I glad to see you! There were three loud crashes as the group
headed for them. The Tyrant monster dropped through the roof, it's gray body
glistening with sweat. Then the wall to the right collapsed, Mr. X stood in the
powdery smoke caused by rubble.
From behind the group just entering
the airport came a huge flame, it blew the entire wall down. In the fire stood
Adam, his body seeming to fuel it while he acted as if he could not feel the
heat.
The group was almost completely
cornered. PJ began to fight the Tyrant. The monster's extra long claws tore
through the wall like a hot knife through butter. Justin ran to help him, but
was caught by Mr. X. In on of the creatures large hands he took Justin and
through him like a rag doll. Keena went help, but X charged into her knocking
her down. Adam jumped into the middle of the group not in the fight yet. He
began to swing out as hard as he could knocking each one of them flying into
separate walls. He stood over Claire about to strike down but from the side of
him came a Hollow Point Magnum bullet.
It forced him to the ground. He
turned as he lay there and he saw Leon Kennedy standing. Jill got to her feet.
"Everyone get to the train!" She yelled.
Steve stood up and ran over to Adam
he picked up the man by his neck, he through the man into the wall. Tyrant was
suffering from major blood loss, and as Lauren bought the last Rocket up from
the top. She took wide aim and yelled out, "Clear."
The rocket winded through the air
and hit Tyrant head on, he was blown to pieces in seconds. Lauren headed for
the train, her gun swinging madly, the rest were already on. Mr. X stood over
Tyrant's body, or what was left of it, it appeared his mission had been to
destroy it. But Adam charged, thinking quickly, John and Carlos fired their
rockets at the same time, the one's mounted on the M16.
Adam
did not blow up like Tyrant but he fell dead on the ground. Lauren started the
train and it sped away. Within minutes reaching the outside of the city, they
were on the way home.
"The rockets were large!
"Fired at the city hours after the
Turks were supposed to have been gone." Said the Television announcer, his
voice laden with sorrow. "The entire city of Albany was wiped off the face of
the Earth.
"The Bright Anvil Technology
developed in the late nineteen century made sure of that. And with its no fall
out leaving explosion I am standing in a pile of rock that was once the Albany
Airport.
"When something like this happens
the question is not HOW, but WHY. And to tell the truth this reporter does not
know, but one thing I do know, our hearts go out to the victims of this
tragedy." The Camera man looks down after the shoot should be over.
"What's that?" Says the Cameraman.
Some rocks move by the reporter's foot, and holds the camera steady on them.
"It looks like we have a survivor!"
Said the reported. Then a gray hand shot fourth grabbing his leg, in a heart
beat the reporter burst into flames. The Cameraman held the camera still, more
than likely out of fear. Adam in his new for burst out of the rubble. The gray
man walked over to the Camera, little blots of flame falling off him.
He looked straight into the Camera's
eye. "This will be the last stand." And with those last words the broadcast
ended for the cameraman, as his entire body was engulfed by flames.
Ash, Misty
and Brock came to a large passenger train, it looked slightly new and had a few
scrapes on the side. A long red stripe ran vertically down the middle. Through
the tinted windows Ash could see the lights were on, and there was no inside,
at least there wasn't in this car.
Brock looked over at Ash, "We should
go in, it will be much safer." He said. Brock pushed the door button and the
train door slid open. They stepped inside and looked around, the seats were
clean and it looked as if no one had sat in them all day.
Misty stepped in close behind Ash,
she was still shaken by the attack earlier. She was even more frightened when
Ash called out. "Anybody home!" He exclaimed. There was a loud snap as the
answer. A man with draping brown hair sat up from between two seats.
He held a Double
Barreled Shotgun aimed straight at them. "Who are you!" He yelled.
The trio backed away, stuttering as
they did. But Pikachu hopped down off Ash's hat and ran over to the seat in
front of the man. His cheeks lit up and before the man could take aim on the
yellow mouse it was on top of his head and it released its terrible Thunder
Shock.
The man screamed falling off the
seat onto the cold tile floor. The gun clattered from his hand and slid over to
the other side of the train. He went for the gun but found Brock's foot slammed
down on the handle. "Uh-uh." He said shaking his finger in a commanding way."
The door to the next train car burst
open and more people stepped in. One a girl who was limping looked at the man
on the floor. "Leon!" She managed are you okay?" She asked.
The man looked up, "Shannon." He
said. "Thank God." He got to his feet while rubbing the back of his head.
"Sorry about that kids." He said. "Can't be too sure in this city ya' know." He
told them.
Ash looked down as Pikachu scampered
back up his arm, he smiled slightly. "Its okay." He said. "I think Pikachu took
care of it." He said.
Misty jumped at her chance to ask a
question, "Are you all headed out of this city soon?" She asked.
Leon answered. "When our friends
return with all of the survivors." He said.
Shannon doubled over catching her
side. "But your welcome to stay with us on this train."
****
Cid stood
out on the front end of the deck of the Highwind, his left foot was propped up
on the low rail. The wind in his face blowing back the stripes of the goggles
he wore. His blue coat caught most of the air. He reached up and plucked the
cigarette out of his mouth between his index and middle finger.
"Cid!" came a soft feminine voice.
He turned to see a woman clad in a pink dress with a small red short sleeved
coat not event reaching to her waist. She held a pink parcel in her hands while
looking at him.
"What's wrong Aeris?" He asked
looking at her.
"How much longer until we reach my
cousin and her friends." She asked.
He smiled again, "Since we caught
this Jet Stream it won't be long at all, maybe ten minutes. I can already see
the city!"
She walked back to the door, "Thank
You." She said. From the staircase in the middle of the deck came another
voice, this one more adult like.
"That was nice what you did for my
niece." Said the voice.
Cid turned to her it was Charlene,
"Yeah, I guess you kind of miss your daughter, but I wouldn't worry, Keena's
more than qualified to handle this."
"Yeah." She said. "But Kate's not,
she's only fourteen and she still a little girl and if Keena didn't save her…"
She paused sniffing and holding something back. "…I just don't want to think
about it."
Cid ran over hugging her. She cried
onto his jacket sleeve. He had no idea what to do, it had been a long time since
ANY woman touched him, besides that nut ball Aeris, who loved EVERYTHING.
He rubbed her back, "There, there."
He said, he'd heard that one in the movies. "Kate has proved herself in battle
before, she handled it like a true warrior and I'm sure she'll do the same
now." He said. But he too had doubts, he wondered why the ships computer, Alice
had come to find him to help her crew. "Come over here." Cid said to her
leading her toward the deck's edge.
They reached the pointed tip of the
deck, she stepped out in front of him. Down below the city lights of Houston
gave no warning of the hazards that lurked below. The lights of the deck were
all that they had to go by as they stared out across the city.
"I wonder if one of the kids is
looking up here?" She asked.
"I wouldn't know, but I would say
they are, we're the only hope for a clean escape." He said. He felt something
touch his shoulder, he looked over, it was her head. Cid just smiled and leaned
his head against her's.
Inside the Highwind Cloud leaned
against the break room table, Aeris was propped up against his lap as he held
her in his arms. She looked up at him with a large smile her red lips. "I can't
wait to see my cousin, I only wish it were for a better reason." She said.
Cloud had a serious look on his face
at the mention of the subject. "They'll need all the help they can get, Adam's
cell mate over in the jail made a statement about some funny looking guy
claiming to be a priest coming, Adam sold his soul to evil, and now it'll take
a miracle to stop him!" Said Cloud.
Barret burst in the door, "Where the
hell that fucking Cid!?" He yelled. Aeris and Cloud gave him a blank look. "We
need to land NOW!"
Aeris gave a nod, "Try the deck, he
was there last I saw." She said. Barret slammed his hand back against the door.
"Thanks!" He said and was gone.
Barret was back out in the hall
passing Red XIII on the way. The red cat like animal followed him into the next
hall. "Whatever are you doing my good fellow?" Asked the creature.
"I gonna find that damn Cid and make
em' land this piece of shit!" Shouted Barret.
The speaker in front of them came on
and Alice's voice was loud and clear. "I resent that piece of shit remark."
Said the computer sternly. Barret stopped.
"Sorry, I'm sure he meant nothing by
it!" Said Red.
Barret continued on and walked to
the deck, he opened the door and looked out and what he saw Cid and Charlene he
giggled. "Stir your ass Cid we gotta land!" He yelled.
Cid jumped at the voice he quickly
let go of Charlene. He ran back to the door and took one quick glance back at
her. He smiled and ran inside. Barret put his gun to his forehead as he
addressed Charlene. "Sorry miss." He said.
****
Kate
launched herself out of the plane rolling on the pavement. She hit the trashcan
on the side and spilt. "Shit!" She yelled. She cocked the twelve gauge and got
back to her feet. She fired two shots into the open plane door hitting a
zombie. Despite the bad angle of the shot she was able to knock the creature
back into the plane cabin.
Rickey hoisted her to her feet.
"Where'd you learn to shoot?" Asked Rickey.
She smiled sweeping her bangs out of
her face. "My dad's an expert." She said.
Sarah ran over to a sign, "Hey look!"
She said. "The Subway entrance, we can escape through here, that's the only way
the Turks could have gotten into the city." She said.
Lea looked around, "We need to look
around first." She said. "There could be some useful items up here." There was
a sudden loud moan and around the corner came a large group of the living dead
creatures. Debra and Prentiss raised their guns to fire.
"Don't!" Said Rickey. "Let's just
move out and head down into the Subway!" Rickey commanded. They all charged
down into the tunnels to avoid the creatures chasing them. Tonya was the last
one into the hole and she bit the pin off of one of her grenades. She let the
small explosive fly as she entered the hole and her aim was right on.
The sound rang in their ears as the
blast desecrated the group of zombies, shrapnel pounded into the undead things
ripping them to shreds.
The group was down in the tunnel
when they saw that the door leading to the main hall was locked. The door was
metal and would be nearly impossible to open. Mitchell grabbed the knob,
"Locked, and we can't shot it off." Said Mitchell.
"We can chill here for a while,"
Said Scott taking a drag. Kate stepped forward, "Let me handle that." She put
her hand on the knob and concentrated as her mother had taught her. "Must be an
electric lock, my telekinesis isn't that good." She stepped back again and then
put both of her hands flat on the door. White light appeared around them and
there was a loud boom as the door shot off and landed flat on the ground.
Scott's mouth hung open and the
cigarette dropped from it. "How did you…"
"Let's go," said Lea.
They stepped through the large hole
where the door had been, the metal door lay clanking on the ground as they
walked over it. Off in the distance a soft breathing sound could be heard.
Mitchell stuck his hand out in
caution. Sarah, who was behind him stopped on a dime as did the rest. Mitchell
looked up. "Do you hear that."
Everyone stopped all movement trying
to catch a hint of the sound. Tonya spoke softly as she caught it, "A Licker!"
She said.
Kate cocked the Shotgun trying to
see where the noise originated. From behind her came a loud scream, "Get down."
Sarah fell flat and rolled into the
wall. As they all looked back her attacker could not be seen. The sound of
moving air caught them and then something hit the ceiling right above them, the
Licker had some kind of stealth power.
Kate looked around, "I can sense it,
but these Certa powers aren't enough to find where it is." She said.
Scott helped Sarah up, she seemed
startled but not scratched. Before they could try anything else the monster
struck again, he landed right on Rickey's back knocking him to the floor.
****
Alaina
popped the clip loose from the M16 she held, the Bandit Snatcher fell backwards
blood running from its head in a bubbly. She aimed the gun to the sky and took
a cocky stance. "That's all of em'." She said.
Keena swept at her bangs and smiled,
"We should be close to getting the kids now."
Justin's watch beeped and he looked
at the screen. Then he pushed the button on the side. "What's up, Alice."
He said.
A woman with blue eyes and brown
hair was on the watch face. She smiled, her eyes shining. Justin smiled back.
"I see you programmed a face for yourself now, you look cute."
"Thank you." Said Alice. "I also got
the holograms working with Captain Highwind's help, but that's not why I'm
here." She said.
Keena stepped closer looking into
the watch face, "Why are you here?" She asked.
"The kids are in the tunnels near us
and the Highwind's landed by the train, we're loading the passengers as we
speak, but there is some business left on your part, so I took the liberty of
bringing the cars around." She said.
The Suburban and BMW Z3 Convertible
came around the corner. Justin smiled at the site of his car, "We have one more
survivor." He said. The cars stopped about ten feet off of them and Justin
walked over to his car looking in at the dashboard. Alice's face looked off the
computer screen that sat underneath the radio.
Keena started designating cars right
away. "Chris, John and Tiffane, take the Suburban, Alaina come with Justin and
I." She said. Justin walked around opening the door for both the girls he ran
to his side and hopped over the door landing in the seat.
Alice laughed, "Happy? Aren't we?"
She asked. "I also took the liberty of refilling the gas." She said.
"Thank you." Justin said. He turned
the key, the engine turned and started smoothly. Justin put his foot on the
pedal, he looked down at the radio, there would be no way he could get a
station if the city was full of Zombies. He reached down and moved through the
songs on the MP3 player.
Alaina leaned in, "I don't want to
hear anything hard." Keena reached down and slapped Justin's hand. She hit the
buttons and came up with "Shape of My Heart."
"There," she said.
Justin grimaced, "I can't kill
anything to that."
Keena ignored him, "Alice we need a
full weapons check and then we need to have all of the weapons engaged." She
said.
Alaina looked back at the Suburban
rolling on behind them. The music played softly as Keena sung along, Justin
watched as the Weapons Check progressed. The batting of blades could be heard
over the sound of the MP3 player. A helicopter rose up out of the buildings to
the side of the road they were on.
"Would you like me to target that?"
Asked Alice.
Justin hesitated, "No." He said. "It
could be a survivor." The chopper came up over the car and then it released
something, a large cylinder that came from the bottom. It hit the road and
Justin swerved narrowly missing it. The helicopter off up into the sky,
disappearing into the dark.
Justin had come to a stop and he
looked at a spot between Keena and Alaina, "You two stay here, I'll check that
thing out!" He said. Justin reached under the seat producing a shotgun. He
checked the chamber, five bullets that was enough. Justin stood up and opened
the door.
Keena yelled out to Justin, "I love
good luck."
Justin looked back, "I love you
too." He said.
"Good luck." Said Alaina.
Justin stepped over towards the
capsule. He held the gun back to his side he stepped over to the smoking
object. He looked back at the girls. "Something's breathing inside. It sounds
hurt." He said. Suddenly the capsule rolled over towards Justin, all at once he
jumped narrowly escaping the obstacle. He stumbled back catching himself.
The thing broke and smoke covered
the area where it had been, but the smoke was taking up a much larger space.
Keena hung out of the car, "Hello!" She yelled.
A voice answered from within the
smoke, sweet and kind, soft and convincing. "Hi! I was trapped in the capsule."
Justin ran over to the smoke as he
entered it he called out, "Where are you!?" A sucker punch caught him off
guard. He flew back hitting the ground while loading the shotgun. He dropped
the bullets all over the ground they slid far out of his reach.
Getting back to his feet he went to
step but a small fist caught him off balanced. He looked up into his attackers
face, her purple eyes and hair. She had teal skin, smooth and even. But the
fist's strength was that of a man, a very big man.
Keena charged out of the car, "Don't
you touch him girlfriend!" She yelled.
"Who's going to stop me?" Asked the
mysterious woman. "You?"
Alaina remembered her M16, she
lifted it, two more rockets. As she started to get out the car door slammed.
"Wha…" Alaina was startled by the door.
"Don't be afraid." Said the Alice.
"I'll handle this, I don't want to see the captain hurt." The car started and
then backed up positioning itself facing the battle scene. "Target locked."
Said Alice. "Firing."
The rocket on the side of the car
dropped out to the side it then caught itself from falling by firing a rocket
in the back and flying. Just as the rocket was coming the thing grabbed Keena. It
flung her easily over its back and onto the side walk. As Justin heard the
missile he jumped up and dove over next to Keena on the ground.
The explosion was loud and the car
rolled over next to Justin and Keena. Justin opened the door and let Keena crawl
across his seat. He jumped in slamming the door. He shook off his scratches and
threw the shotgun in the back with Alaina. He looked at Alice, "We'll need to
meet in Enron Field, theres no where else you can fit the Highwind." He said.
"About that, you are absolutely
right, sir." Alice said.
Justin looked at Keena and then
Alaina, "You girls okay?" Asked Justin looking concerned.
Alaina nodded but Keena winched in
pain, there was a large slash across her shoulder. Alice looked at it, "There
is a first aid kit under the seat." Said the computer.
Justin pulled off his over shirt and
handed it to Alaina, "Hold this." She took it.
"I'm fine honey." She moaned trying
to ignore the pain. Justin took Keena's arm and lifted it, she screamed.
"Sorry babe." Said Justin. He took
the shirt from Alaina and wrapped it around the wound. He tied it off, "That'll
have to do." He said. Alice started the car going towards Enron Field.
****
BAM
The
shotgun's shell slammed into the invisible Licker's back making blood run all
down his back. Kate watched as the Licker flew off of Rickey. Scott and Lea ran
to help him. There was a trail of blood where the Licker had taken his slid.
Kate, Tonya and Michael stood ready to
open fire. "On the count of three," said Kate.
"Three," Tonya screamed before
opening fire. Kate and Michael followed. Blood splashed from the Licker and it
soon became visible again, and with one last bullet to the brain it was put
down.
Rickey dusted himself off and looked
around. The Licker lay against the wall, its brain torn to pieces by the
bullets that had torn through it. A voice came on over a PA system, " A train
has just arrived in East Station."
Rickey regained his will and spoke, "Let's head to the train
down that way," he pointed to the East.
They ran down the pathways and then
down another flight of stairs and they saw it, an open tunnel with a long train
setting halfway in the large hole and the other half out. Then the Highwind's
deck was lowered down behind the train where people were climbing on to the
large ship.
Kate yelled out, "Guys its us!"
Everyone on the deck turned around
and looked back, smiles formed on their faces as they realized what had
happened. All of the exhausted warriors charged up onto the deck dropping their
weapons. Prentiss dropped to his knees, "Thank God Almighty I'm free at last!"
He kissed the deck's hard wood floor.
Michael looked around, "Where are my
parents." she said. "And your are gone to Kate."
Scott and Mitchell stood next to the
pole in the middle of the deck. Amanda and Lauren walked over. "Long time no
see," said Amanda.
"And you never called!" Lauren
yelled.
*****
The rotating machine guns on either
side of the BMW spun wildly tearing through the glass and opening a less
obstructed path for the Turks, the Suburban broke through right on the heels of
the car and broke more of the glass, adding to the damage.
Justin slung the wheel to the left
centering the car in the middle of the wide walkway. The Suburban did the same
and the rode around until they reached a big glass window. The cars went
through it without hesitation, but they were so high in the air that they had
to fire the boosters on the bottom. The car landed softly on the Astro-terf of
the field.
As the Suburban landed across in
front of it, Justin slammed the brakes. There was a sudden explosion in between
the BMW and the Suburban. John and Tiffane were out of the car first, and they
could see right in front of them there was Adam. Keena Justin and Alaina jumped
over the doors of the BMW. Chris was the last out.
Adam took the first move by firing a
flame ball at them, but they were protected as Keena cast a barrier spell
blocking the flame. She looked at all of them. "He won't use physical attacks,
he's got those demon powers, it'll take Certa Holy magic to stop him now." She
said.
Justin ran around to the other side
trying to get behind Adam. He could not make it as a wave of force hit him
knocking him back into the car. Keena took the opportunity to fire an attack at
him, "Holy War!" She shouted, a white wave rushed out of her. As the wave
rushed at Adam it tore the turf. He was slammed back first into the ground. She
lowered her hands thinking that he was out for good, But he floated up while
laying on his back, he flipped down setting firmly back into the ground, his
eyes glowed red.
John fired at him, but the bullets
just hit him without effect. Tiffane stepped back behind him. Adam began to
look for a target, he looked to Keena, she would be to hard with all the magic.
He looked at Tiffane and John, that would still be a hard time. Then there was
Chris, he was too fast. Justin was too strong. But then, Alaina, she was the
perfect target. He charged and before anyone could stop him a big flash of
white light lit up the area of impact.
When the light cleared, Alaina had
her hand up and a wall of white light stood between her and Adam. The wall was
something that Keena, Justin, Tiffane and John had seen before. Chris looked on
in sheer amazement, "What is it?"
"Lifestream!" Said Tiffane amazed.
Chris lowered his gun, "Only a Certa
can summon that I thought." Said Chris.
"Alaina you're…" John started.
Then Alaina snapped her fingers and
the Lifestream surrounded Adam in a blinding light. A hole opened in the ground
and fire erupted out and just then Adam was pushed in. "No, not that, it's not
part of the deal!" He yelled.
But the Lifestream pushed him in,
and in a white light it vanished into the blackness of night and was replaced
by the silvery silhouette of the Highwind Airship, and the sound Alice's voice
calling out to them.
